Browsing Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften by Author "Reinhart, Carmen M."

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2020-06-09Diskussionspapier

Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending

Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph

Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. ...
2019-10-11Diskussionspapier

Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo

Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) ...