TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lienau,Odette
TI  - Rethinking sovereign debt: politics, reputation, and legitimacy in modern finance 
SN  - 9780674725065 (hbk.)
AV  - HJ8015 .L54 2014
U1  - 336.3'4 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, 
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Debts, Public
KW  - Debt cancellation
KW  - Sovereign debt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-317) and index
N2  - The author shows that sovereign debt continuity - the rule that nations must repay loans even after a regime change - relies on absolutist ideas, and explains why the practice is not essential for functioning capital markets
ER  -