Towards a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring

It highlights that there are four components common to most bankruptcy reorganization institutions: a stay on debt collection efforts to prevent a costly run for the assets, broad enforcement of absolute priority, majority voting among creditors on the proposed reorganization plan, and new higher priority financing to keep the firm going while its liabilities are restructured. The paper goes on to argue that these components ought to be present in some form in any sovereign debt restructuring procedure even if important differences exist between corporations and sovereign states.