Includes bibliographical references and index.

A new wave of sovereign debt crises? -- The sovereign debt crisis that was not/ Daniel Cohen and C�cile Valadier -- Unpleasant surprises: determinants and risks of sovereign default/ Luca Bandiera, Jesis Crespo Cuaresma, and Gallina A. Vincelette -- Finding the tipping point: when sovereign debt turns bad/ Mehmet Caner, Thomas Grennes, and Fritzi Koehler-Geib -- Determinants of emerging market sovereign bond spreads?/ Dimitri Bellas, Michael G. Papaioannou, and Iva Petrova -- Sovereign debt distress and corporate spillover impacts/ Mansoor Dailami -- The effects of the crisis on debt -- Debt sustainability and debt distress in the wake of the ongoing financial crisis: the case of ida-only african countries/ Leonardo Hernssndez and Boris Gamarra -- Do middle-income countries still have the ability to deal with the global -- Financial crisis?/ Ralph Van Doorn, Vivek Suri, and Sudarshan Gooptu -- Small states, the financial crisis, and the aftermath/ Edgardo Favaro, Dorte Dmeland, William G. O'Boyle, and Tihomir Stucka -- Europe's crisis: origins and policy challenges/ Edgardo Favaro, Ying Li, Juan Pradelli, and Ralph Van Doorn -- Debt restructuring mechanisms: lessons and beyond -- Avoiding avoidable debt crises: lessons from recent defaults/ Yuefen Li, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, and Ugo Panizza -- Managing subnational credit and default risks/ Lili Liu and Michael Waibel -- Restructuring sovereign debts with private sector creditors: theory and practice/ Mark L. J. Wright -- A standing arbitral tribunal as a procedural solution for sovereign debt restructurings/ Christoph G. Paulus -- International lending of last resort and sovereign debt restructuring/ Eduardo Fernssndez-Arias -- Managing public debt in crises: how experiences differ -- Managing public debt and its financial stability implications/ Udaibir S. Das, Michael Papaioannou, Guilherme Pedras, Jay Surti, and Faisal Ahmed -- Public debt management in emerging market economies: has this time been different?/ Phillip R. D. Anderson, Anderson Caputo Silva, and Antonio Velandia-Rubiano -- Crisis preparedness and debt management in low-income countries: strengthening institutions and policy frameworks/ Dana Weist, Eriko Togo, Abha Prasad, and -- William o'boyle -- Public debt management and sovereign risk during the worst financial crisis on record: experiences and lessons from the oecd area/ Hans J. Blommestein.

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