Christoph Trebesch

Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Munich

Schackstr. 4, 80539 München, Germany
Tel. +49-89-2180-5718

Please contact me via email: christoph.trebesch@econ.lmu.de

My Google Scholar page

New Research:

A Distant Mirror of Debt, Default and Relief, NBER Working Paper 2057, October 2014, with Carmen Reinhart

Political Booms, Financial Crises, NBER Working Paper, July 2014, with Helios Herrera and Guillermo Ordonez

Foreign Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?, November 2014, with Marcos Chamon and Julian Schumacher

Sovereign Defaults in Court, May 2014, with Julian Schumacher and Henrik Enderlein

This paper was cited in the US Government Opinion and the French Government Opinion on the NML vs. Argentina case (Second Circuit/Supreme Court)
Press Coverage: New York Times, Financial Times, FAZ, FAZ Sonntagszeitung, DER SPIEGEL, NZZ, ARD, El Cronista, Bloomberg, FT Alphaville [4X: here, here, here and here]
The paper was presented at: ASSA/AEA 2014, NBER SI 2013 (IFM group), ECB, IMF, Bonn University, Bank of Italy, RES Conference

ECB Interventions in Distressed Sovereign Debt Markets: The Case of Greek Bonds, CESifo WP No. 4731
March 2014, with Jeromin Zettelmeyer. Revise & Resubmit Review of Financial Studies

The paper was presented at: ECB, Fed Chicago, Fed San Francisco, Bank of Spain, Goethe U Frankfurt, DIW Berlin, U Santa Clara, Mainz University

Sovereign Defaults: The Price of Haircuts, with Juan Cruces (Paper, Appendix) *** NEW *** 2014 Update of Haircut Dataset, August 7, 2014.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013, 5(3), pp. 85–117.

Press Coverage: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg / Business Week, Roubini, Die Zeit, Die Welt, The Guardian (Data Blog), La Repubblica, Le Temps, Die Presse, Kathimerini, Handelsblatt, El Mundo, El Economista, Sydney Morning Herald, The Nikkei, New York Times. See also Summary piece on VOX
The paper was presented at: NBER SI 2012 (IFM group), ECB, RES Conference, Central Banks of Austria, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
September 2013, with Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport and Andreas Steinmayr, CESifo WP 4389

The Greek Debt Restructuring: An Autopsy, CESifo WP 4333, July 2013, with Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Mitu Gulati

A shorter version has been published in Economic Policy, 2013, 28(75), pp. 513-569.

Press Coverage: Financial Times Alphaville, Forbes Magazine, Manager Magazin
The paper was presented at: ASSA/AEA 2014, ECB, IMF, London Business School, Peterson Institute

Sovereign Debt Restructurings 1950-2010: Literature Survey, Data and Stylized Facts, August 2012, with Udaibir Das and Michael Papaioannou, IMF Working Paper 12/203. [Paper] and [Data]

Press Coverage: Financial Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, FT Alphaville, Dow Jones Newswire
See also Summary piece on VOX