Reputation and Partial Default

17 Pages Posted: 5 Jul 2021 Last revised: 5 Jun 2023

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Manuel Amador

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Christopher Phelan

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

Date Written: July 2021

Abstract

This paper presents a continuous-time reputation model of sovereign debt allowing for both varying levels of partial default and full default. In it, a government can be a non-strategic commitment type, or a strategic opportunistic type, and a government's reputation is its equilibrium Bayesian posterior of being the commitment type. Our equilibrium has that for bond levels reachable by both types without defaulting, bigger partial defaults (or bigger haircuts for bond holders) imply higher interest rates for subsequent bond issuances, as in the data.

Suggested Citation

Amador, Manuel and Phelan, Christopher, Reputation and Partial Default (July 2021). NBER Working Paper No. w28997, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3880230

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Christopher Phelan

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Minneapolis, MN 55454
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