The European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about the power of finance
and the fraught relationship between capitalism and democracy in a globalized world. Why …

A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the
ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as …

This article reviews recent literature on sanctions from international law, political science,
sociology, anthropology, and history. It shows how the literature during the comprehensive …

In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe
for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature
has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing" lessons learned" in historical …

This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First, it
provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability …

We study the effect of financial relationships on firms' investment decisions and access to
external finance. In the early twentieth century, securities underwriters commonly held …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature
has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing “lessons learned” in historical …

This paper unpacks the role of foreign bondholders committees in influencing market access
following a default during the era before the creation of the British Corporation of Foreign …

How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the twenty-first century? We survey how the
literature has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing “lessons learned” in historical …