Authors:

  • Eric Chaney

Excerpt

Assessing pacification policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi financial markets. Eric Chaney, 2008, Paper. "At the end of January, 2006 the Iraqi government issued roughly $2.7 billion of debt in exchange for over $20 billion of Saddam-era commercial claims. This paper uses variation in the yield spread of this sovereign debt to evaluate pacification policy in Iraq. Structural change models are run in conjunction with conventional event study analysis. Results detail a mixed market reaction towards pacification policies implemented through August, 2006..." May require purchase or user account. Link