Sovereign Debt Guarantees and Default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920-1938
By Nathan Foley-Fisher (Federal Reserve Board) and Eoin McLaughlin (St. Andrews)
Abstract We study the daily yields on Irish land bonds listed on the Dublin Stock Exchange during the years 1920-1938. We exploit structural differences in bonds guaranteed by the UK and Irish governments to find Irish events that had long term effects on the credibility of government guarantees. We document two major events: The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and Ireland’s default on intergovernmental payments in 1932. We discuss the political and economic forces behind the Irish and UK governments’ decisions. Our finding has implications for modern-day proposals to issue jointly-guaranteed sovereign debt.
URL: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sss:wpaper:2015-11
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Review by Sarah Charity (Queen’s University of Belfast)
This working paper abets us in shedding some light on the financial implications for current economic events. One that dominated…
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