Hope Springs Eternal
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French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt
Kim Oosterlinck; Translated by Anthony Bulger
In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime’s sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlinck shows that, far from irrational, investors had legitimate reasons to hope for repayment. Soviet debt recognition, a change in government, a bailout by the French government, or French banks, or a seceding country would have guaranteed at least a partial reimbursement. As Greece and other European countries raise the possibility of sovereign default, Oosterlinck’s superbly researched study is more urgent than ever.
Kim Oosterlinck is professor of finance at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.
ISBN: 9780300190915
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
264 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
4 b/w illus.
4 b/w illus.