Abstract

Barry Eichengreen’s paper provides a generally balanced review of the issues for this session, and highlights important institutional facts (such as the structure of British-style bond contracts) and country experiences. Rather than focus my comments directly on his paper, I will attempt to set forth the framework that I consider most useful in addressing this topic.1 It should be apparent where there are significant divergences from Eichengreen’s approach.

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