Debttalks, the Chair’s podcast

In this episode of DebtTalks – recorded on January 29, 2025 – Paola Subacchi and Isabelle Mateos y Lago examine the relationship between monetary policy and sovereign debt.

In this episode of DebtTalks, Paola Subacchi and Jean-Pierre Landau discuss the constraints imposed by rising debt levels and the policy trade-offs among pressing needs such as poverty relief and climate action.

In this episode Paola is joined by Sean Hagan to discuss the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the lender of last resort and as a “trigger” for debt restructuring.

How does the debt market fare over a very long period? Paola Subacchi is joined by Josefin Meyer to look at sovereign bonds over 200 years that stretch after the battle of Waterloo (1815) and 2016.

Paola Subacchi, Deborah Brautigam and Yufan Huang explore the changing dynamics of China’s lending and the implications for the international financial architecture.

In this episode of DebtTalks, Paola Subacchi and Jérôme Sgard dive into the debt crisis of the 1980s that hit many developing countries between 1982 and 1989.

Listen as Paola Subacchi, William Roos and Philippe Guyonnet-Dupérat discuss challenges posed by a more heterogenous creditor group and institutional innovations like the Common Framework for Debt Treatments.

Join Paola Subacchi and Gregory Makoff as they discuss the economic, legal, political, and institutional questions that arise when a country defaults on its debt.

Join Paola and Yannis Manuelides for the first episode of this series. In 2010 Greece’s debt was downgraded and this marked the beginning of a long debt crisis that brought Greece near collapse and undermined the financial stability of the Euro Area.