Sovereign Debt Distress, Restructurings and Market Access: The Cases of Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus: Session 3

VIDEO March 5, 2019

Speaker / Author

Tamon Asonuma

Economist in the Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund

Tamon Asonuma is an Economist in the Strategy Policy and Review Department of the IMF. Since joining the IMF on September 2010, he has spent most of times in Research Department and Strategy Policy and Review Department. During his time in the Strategy Review and Policy Department, he has contributed to series of the IMF Policy Papers on sovereign debt restructurings and IMF lending, and sovereign-bank linkages, and involving in many debt restructuring cases (Greece, Myanmar, Belize, Cyprus, Grenada) as an expert. In Research Department, he has worked on research papers on costs of sovereign debt restructurings, fiscal policy, sovereign ... Read More

Juan M. Sánchez

Assistant Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Juan M. Sánchez is an Assistant Vice President and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has conducted research on several topics in macroeconomics involving financial decisions by firms, households and countries. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, among others. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 2008. ... Read More

Satyajit Chatterjee

Vice President and Economist and Section Head for Consumer Finance in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Satyajit Chatterjee is Vice President and Economist and Section Head for Consumer Finance in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He joined the Bank in 1991 and has held his current position since August 2017. Prior to joining the Bank he was faculty at the University of Iowa. He has held visiting faculty positions at the Wharton School and the University of Texas at Austin and is a visiting fellow at Drexel University's School of Economics. Chatterjee has written on a wide range of macroeconomic topics, including business cycles, business formation, regional and urban economic growth, consumer ... Read More

Aitor Erce

Principal Economist, European Stability Mechanism

Aitor Erce is a Principal Economist at the European Stability Mechanism. He is also a research affiliate with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and former research economist at the General Directorate of International Affairs of the Bank of Spain. Through the positions held, both at the Bank of Spain, since 2006, and the European Stability Mechanism, since 2013, Aitor has been involved in the evaluation and design of international financial policies, including related to debt sustainability analysis, the design of official lending programs and the development of tools for the early detection of risks to sovereigns’ market access. In ... Read More

Tiago Tavares

Professor of Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Tiago Tavares is is a professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and currently also affiliated with the Centro de Investigación Económica in Mexico. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 2015 with a dissertation topic related with sovereign debt default. His main research interests focus on international macroeconomics, financial crises, and sovereign default and some of his recent work include the study of the accumulation of external debt and foreign reserves on economies subject to sovereign default risk, labor market dynamics of southern European countries affected by the 2010 debt crisis, or firm-level investment dynamics ... Read More