This article serves as an introduction to two issues of the <italic>Oxford Review of Economic Policy</italic>, one entitled ‘Sovereign Debt: Understanding Bond Markets During the Eurozone Crisis’ and the second ‘Sovereign Debt: Lessons from the Past, Reforms for the Future’. We begin by documenting...

In this short article we provide an introduction to the issue of the <italic>Oxford Review of Economic Policy</italic> entitled ‘Sovereign Debt: Lessons from the Past, Reforms for the Future’. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.