Contact info: Ugo Panizza, DGDS, UNCTAD, Palais des Nations, 8-14, Av. de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Phone: +41 22 917 4085                                     

 

• The Costs of Sovereign Default (with Eduardo Borensztein) lots of data and descriptive statistics. The bottom-line is that costs are not as high as you think. Available as IMF Working Paper and as IMF Staff Papers (gated). If you don't want to read too much, The Economist has a piece about this paper. This is our VOXEU piece about this paper. In italiano su La Voce
• The Economics and Law of Sovereign Debt and Default (with Federico Sturzenegger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer). Everything you want to know about sovereign debt and sovereign default, Journal of Economic Literature (gated). Ungated version
• The Elusive Costs of Sovereign Default (with Eduardo Levy Yeyati). What happens to GDP growth after defaults? Not much! Journal of Development Economics. (Ungated version)
• Do Sovereign Defaults Hurt Exporters? (with E. Borensztein). Exporters are not happy after defaults, but the pain does not last too much. Open Economies Review. (Ungated version, somewhat different from the published version but the message is the same).

• BBC Interview
• Intervista sulla radio della Svizzera italiana