Any comments?

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu
Wed Apr 12 09:16:51 PDT 2000


Brad De Long wrote:


>
> >
> >You default. Or threaten to do so and pay x cents on the dollar.
>
> As I said, the big problem is the flow, not the stock: you need money
> to pay for your current imports...
>
> Brad DeLong

You assume that the entities defaulting are the same ones doing the importing. Also, presumably you default before you run out of reserves. Anyway, that's the first thing the IMF tells you to do, cut imports, right?

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