Authors:

  • Gita Gopinath

Excerpt

Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang. Aguiar, Mark, Manuel Amador, and Gita Gopinath, 2009, Paper. "We characterize optimal taxation of foreign capital and optimal sovereign debt policy in a small open economy where the government cannot commit to policy, seeks to insure a risk-averse domestic constituency, and is more impatient than the market. Optimal policy generates long-run cycles in both sovereign debt and foreign direct investment in an environment in which the first best capital stock is a constant. The expected tax on capital endogenously varies with the state of the economy, and investment is distorted..." Link