Sovereign Debt: A Guide for Economists and Practitioners

Introduction
1:Public Debt through the Ages, Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Pedro Esteves and Kris James Mitchener
2:Guide to Sovereign Debt Definitions and Composition, Serkan Arslanalp, Wolfgang Bergthaler, Philip Stokoe and Alexander F. Tieman
3:The Motive to Borrow, Antonio Fatás, Atish R. Ghosh, Ugo Panizza, Andrea F. Presbitero
4:Public Debt Sustainability, Xavier Debrun, Jonathan D. Ostry, Tim Willems, and Charles Wyplosz
5:Debt Management, Thordur Jonasson, Michael G. Papaioannou, and Mike Williams
6:Reducing Debt Short of Default, Tom Best, Oliver Bush, Luc Eyraud, and M. Belen Sbrancia
7:Sovereign Default, Julianne Ams , Reza Baqir , Anna Gelpern and Christoph Trebesch
8:The Restructuring Process, Lee Buchheit, Guillaume Chabert, Chanda DeLong, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
9:Challenges Ahead, Hugh Bredenkamp, Ricardo Hausmann , Alex Pienkowski, and Carmen Reinhart

Kenneth S. Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton).

Alex Pienkowski is an economist in the European department of the International Monetary Fund with a focus on sovereign debt, in particular the resolution architecture for debt crises, the costs and benefits of state-contingent debt and the propagation of shocks during crises. He has worked on a range of countries including Portugal, Argentina, Ukraine and Mongolia. Prior to the IMF, Alex worked for the Bank of England for five years. He specialized in international issues in both the financial stability and monetary analysis departments of the Bank. Much of his time involved working on the euro area sovereign debt crisis. Alex was also an Overseas Development Institute fellow in Malawi between 2007-09.

S. Ali Abbas is currently serving as Advisor in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, heading the International Monetary Fund team for Jordan. Prior to this, he was Deputy Chief of the Debt Policy Division in the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the IMF. He has led key reforms to the Fund's lending and crisis resolution frameworks; served as Fund liaison to the Paris Club; and has been closely involved in several exceptional access Fund-supported programs, including Ireland 2010, Ukraine 2015, and Argentina 2018. He has published on fiscal policy, government financing, and sovereign debt crises, and helped compile widely-used databases on the level, dynamics, and composition of public debt.