This paper extends the existing literature on empirical research in the field of sovereign debt. To the authors' knowledge, only one study in the area of sovereign debt has used a variety of statistical methodologies to test the reliability of their predictions and to compare their performance...

We develop an early-warning model of sovereign debt crises. A country is defined to be in a debt crisis if it is classified as being in default by Standard & Poor''s, or if it has access to nonconcessional IMF financing in excess of 100 percent of quota. By means of logit and binary recursive...

The paper focuses on impact of macroeconomic indicators on the development of public debt in Slovakia. The aim of the paper was to identify those macroeconomic indicators which influence the most significantly public debt in Slovakia and to elaborate and verify simple model for public debt...