Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. DATA AND EMPIRICAL APPROACH -- A. Sovereign Borrowing Cost Model -- B. Launch Spreads -- C. Launch Yields -- IV. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX I. MAIN DATA SOURCES AND DESCRIPTION -- REFERENCES.

This paper builds a model of a sovereign borrower that has access to credit from private sector creditors and an IFI. Private sector creditors and the IFI offer different debt contracts that are modelled based on the institutional frameworks of these two types of debt. We analyze the decisions...