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"and providing risk insurance for carbon credits products." finance.yahoo.com/news/world-ban…

My 3-talk Thalia Potamianos/ASCA/ Gennadius Library lecture series from last year is available to stream on YouTube for a limited time: youtube.com/watch?v=HabB_P…

Interesting Africa Report piece on Afrexim's efforts to get Preferred Creditor Status in debt restructurings. The IMF said it "does not determine or grant preferred creditor status" - but has previously said it classifies Afrexim as a commercial creditor theafricareport.com/356219/under-f…

Creditor violence is escalating on.ft.com/3WNr3lO

Donald Harris on sovereign debt Martin Kessler Anna Gelpern Layna Mosley Robin Wigglesworth Theo Maret Andrea Presbitero Brad Setser Yannis Manuelides #DebtCon 7 ??? youtube.com/watch?v=lckt2J…

'... what should tourism’s place be in Greece’s production model? ' Professors Costas Meghir, Sir Christopher Pissarides and Dimitri Vayanos sign a highly topical article.🔽 blogs.lse.ac.uk/greeceatlse/20…

Development bankers tend to blame emerging markets’ high cost of capital on bad data bad institutions bad contracts bad rule of law But what if project costs are higher because those countries don’t issue reserve currencies? My story: on.ft.com/3SCnJY2

Significant for the debt sustainability people: Joint WB-IMF supplement to the 2018 Guidance Note for the Low Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework (LIC-DSF) & the associated debt sustainability analysis (DSA). Gives detailed updated guidance on incorporating climate ...

New WB/IMF Debt for Development Swap Framework is out, alongside longer WB technical note. Short🧵

PODCAST LAUNCH! Tune in to Prof Armand D'Angour’s brilliant new podcast ‘It’s All Greek (and Latin!) To Me’ which explores the ancient world through expressions, stories & quotes from Classical literature that we use in everyday life. First 2 episodes 👇🏻👏 ow.ly/fNou50SR06B

We are delighted that Sofka Zinovieff will take over from Judith Mossman as chair of judges for the League's The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025. We welcome also Esther Eidinow (Bristol) as our newest member of the panel. We shall launch the competition in October. See: anglohellenicleague.org/news/league-an…

Debt transparency discussions have mostly focused on external debt. However, emerging countries have been increasingly relying on domestic markets, which are less scrutinized. Every year, at the WB we track their transparency with this tool (1/2) worldbank.org/en/data/intera…

Sovereign debtors, creditors, and IMF staffers: Are you getting tired of overly complicated value recovery mechanisms? Lee Buchheit and I propose a simpler—and more beneficial—alternative to use next time. Just up on SSRN. Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government CIGI papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

1/ Sovereign debt markets are full of paradoxes. In this paper with Patrick Bolton Imperial College Business School & Mitu Gulati UVA Law School we identify over 20 such puzzles. Geneva Graduate Institute Centre for Finance and Development Let’s dive in! 👇

The first inflation-indexed bond was issued by Massachusetts in 1780, and was linked to a price index comprised of five bushels of corn, ten pounds of wool, 68 and four-sevenths pounds of beef, and 16 pounds of leather. via tontinecoffeehouse.com/2024/08/19/mas…

A short 🧵on this co-authored brainchild that just appeared in print. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A Public Net Worth anchor provides for sensible policy reactions to changes in long-term interest rates. Says IMF IMF Capacity Development IMF Offices in Europe imf.org/en/Publication…

Thanks, diaNEOsis & Ilias Nikolaidis, for covering our research (with Stelios Michalopoulos) on the economic, social, and political impact of refugees from Anatolia in Greece. Paper coming soon. More information, maps, and data anatolia-imprints.gr

𝙐𝙜𝙤 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙖 Finance for Development Lab Geneva Graduate Institute Centre for Finance and Development Martin Kessler Ishac Diwan Dani Rodrik Theo Maret Diego Rivetti Robin Wigglesworth Anna Gelpern Layna Mosley I fully agree that the asymmetric structure of value recovery instruments is a major problem – they don’t protect debtors in bad times. This is why we advocate sovereign GDP-linked bonds with a symmetric payment structure in this CEPR book: cepr.org/publications/s…