01881cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005593 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451871760 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Trebesch, Christoph. The Cost of Aggressive Sovereign Debt Policies : How Much is theprivate Sector Affected? / Christoph Trebesch. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (37 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper proposes a new empirical measure of cooperative versus conflictual crisis resolution following sovereign default and debt distress. The index of government coerciveness is presented as a proxy for excusable versus inexcusable default behaviour and used to evaluate the costs of default for the domestic private sector, in particular its access to international debt markets. Our findings indicate that unilateral, aggressive sovereign debt policies lead to a strong decline in corporate access to external finance (loans and bond issuance). We conclude that coercive government actions towards external creditors can have strong signalling effects with negative spillovers on domestic firms. "Good faith" debt renegotiations may be crucial to minimize the domestic costs of sovereign defaults. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/029 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/029/001.2009.issue-029-en.xml IMF e-Library