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- Title
A Model of Lending Resumption after Default: Lessons from Capital Markets during the Nineteenth Century.
- Authors
SOL, JUAN
- Abstract
This paper mines the experience of the nineteenth-century capital markets to propose an alternative interpretation of international defaults. The standard view—that sovereign default entails exclusion from markets—was often contradicted by reality: in some cases lending ceased, but in others it continued. This paper claims that lenders' responses to default stem from the additional knowledge about borrowers that is acquired during default episodes. Lending is modelled in a costly-state-verification environment where sovereigns have private information about their investment projects (good or bad). After default, lenders audit projects and interrupt lending only if the project is believed to be a ‘bad’ one.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC models; CAPITAL market; HISTORY of economics; FOREIGN loans; DEFAULT (Finance); DEBTOR &; creditor; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Economica, 2009, Vol 76, Issue 303, p557
- ISSN
0013-0427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00690.x