Author Meets Critics: Ben Cormier's "How Governments Borrow"

Session Submission Type: Author meet critics

Session Description

The panel brings together IPE experts to discuss the book “How Governments Borrow,” published in 2024 with Oxford University Press. The book models how partisan politics influence annual government borrowing decisions in Emerging Markets, and so how the sovereign debt structures governments build over time are a function of politics as much as economics.

The panel will cover the book’s main arguments, but prioritize discussing paths for further research on the international and comparative political economy of developing country sovereign debt, finance, and economic policymaking.

Sub Unit

• Division 16: International Political Economy

Chairs

• Layna Mosley Princeton University

• Cameron Ballard-Rosa University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Richard Clark University of Notre Dame

• Mark Copelovitch University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Amy Pond Washington University in St. Louis

Presenter

• Ben Cormier University of Strathclyde