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    Going to extremes: Politics after financial crises, 1870–2014 by Funke, Manuel, Schularick, Moritz, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in European economic review (01-09-2016)
    “…Partisan conflict and policy uncertainty are frequently invoked as factors contributing to slow post-crisis recoveries. Recent events in Europe provide ample…”
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    The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic by Barsbai, Toman, Rapoport, Hillel, Steinmayr, Andreas, Trebesch, Christoph

    “…Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration…”
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    Restructuring Sovereign Bonds: Holdouts, Haircuts and the Effectiveness of CACs by Fang, Chuck, Schumacher, Julian, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in IMF economic review (01-04-2021)
    “…Sovereign debt crises are difficult to solve. This paper studies the “holdout problem,” meaning the risk that creditors refuse to participate in a debt…”
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    SOVEREIGN DEBT RESTRUCTURINGS: PREEMPTIVE OR POST-DEFAULT by Asonuma, Tamon, Trebesch, Christoph

    “…Sovereign debt restructurings can be implemented preemptively—prior to a payment default. We code a comprehensive new data set and find that preemptive…”
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    The output costs of hard and soft sovereign default by Trebesch, Christoph, Zabel, Michael

    Published in European economic review (01-02-2017)
    “…How costly are sovereign debt crises? In this paper we study output losses during sovereign default and debt renegotiation episodes since 1980. In contrast to…”
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    Resolving sovereign debt crises: the role of political risk by Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in Oxford economic papers (01-04-2019)
    “…Abstract Sovereign defaults are bad news for investors and debtor countries, in particular if a default becomes messy and protracted. Why are some debt crises…”
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    Sovereign defaults in court by Schumacher, Julian, Trebesch, Christoph, Enderlein, Henrik

    Published in Journal of international economics (01-07-2021)
    “…For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset…”
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    China's overseas lending by Horn, Sebastian, Reinhart, Carmen M., Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in Journal of international economics (01-11-2021)
    “…Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood. This paper studies the size, terms and destination of…”
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    Global Cycles: Capital Flows, Commodities, and Sovereign Defaults, 1815-2015 by Reinhart, Carmen M., Reinhart, Vincent, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in The American economic review (01-05-2016)
    “…Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their…”
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    Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo by Meyer, Josefin, Reinhart, Carmen M, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01-08-2022)
    “…Abstract This article studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government…”
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    Foreign-Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs? by Chamon, Marcos, Schumacher, Julian, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in Journal of international economics (01-09-2018)
    “…Governments often issue bonds in foreign jurisdictions, which can provide additional legal protection vis-á-vis domestic bonds. This paper studies the effect…”
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    The Greek debt restructuring: an autopsy by Zettelmeyer, Jeromin, Trebesch, Christoph, Gulati, Mitu, Monacelli, Tommaso, Whelan, Karl

    Published in Economic policy (01-07-2013)
    “…The Greek debt restructuring of 2012 stands out in the history of sovereign defaults. It achieved very large debt relief – over 50% of 2012 GDP – with minimal…”
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    Sovereign Defaults: The Price of Haircuts by Cruces, Juan J., Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in American economic journal. Macroeconomics (01-07-2013)
    “…A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to…”
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    SOVEREIGN DEBT RELIEF AND ITS AFTERMATH by Reinhart, Carmen M., Trebesch, Christoph

    “…This paper studies sovereign debt relief in a long-term perspective. We quantify the relief achieved through default and restructuring in two distinct samples:…”
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    The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention by Reinhart, Carmen M., Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (01-01-2016)
    “…A sketch of the International Monetary Fund’s 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over time along multiple dimensions. This…”
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    ECB Interventions in Distressed Sovereign Debt Markets: The Case of Greek Bonds by Trebesch, Christoph, Zettelmeyer, Jeromin

    Published in IMF economic review (01-06-2018)
    “…We study central bank interventions in times of severe distress (mid-2010), using a unique bond-level dataset of ECB purchases of Greek sovereign debt. ECB…”
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    How China lends: a rare look into 100 debt contracts with foreign governments by Gelpern, Anna, Horn, Sebastian, Morris, Scott, Parks, Brad, Trebesch, Christoph

    Published in Economic policy (01-04-2023)
    “…Abstract China is the world’s largest official creditor, but we lack basic facts about the terms and conditions of its lending. Very few contracts between…”
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    What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation? by Schumacher, Julian, Trebesch, Christoph, Enderlein, Henrik

    Published in The Journal of law & economics (01-08-2015)
    “…We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly…”
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    The Pitfalls of External Dependence: Greece, 1829-2015 by REINHART, CARMEN M., TREBESCH, CHRISTOPH

    Published in Brookings papers on economic activity (01-10-2015)
    “…Two centuries of Greek debt crises highlight the pitfalls of relying on external financing. Since its independence in 1829, the Greek government has defaulted…”
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