HKS Affiliated Authors
Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System
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From Financial Repression to External Distress: The Case of Venezuela. Carmen Reinhart, April 2015, Paper. "The literature on external default has stressed the existence of the so-called debt-intolerance puzzle: developing nations tend to default at debt-to-GDP ratios well bellow those of developed countries. The underestimation or plain omission of domestic debt may account for a fraction of that puzzle. We calculate fiscal revenues coming from financial repression using different methodologies for the case of Venezuela, and look at their correspondence with comprehensive measures of capital flight..." Link