WB Law Justice & Development Week 2025, livestream session "Navigating the Legal Complexities of Sovereign Debt," 4 November 4PM moderated by Nicole Kearse, speakers from IMF, African regional institutes, Liberia, AfDB, @agelpern.bsky.social www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

You said it all, Sir. Thanks to you, to @levmenand.bsky.social, Carola Binder @utaustin.bsky.social and Paul Tucker @harvardkennedy.bsky.social for illuminating this moment in the central bank independence debate @piie.com.

Goodbye, #DebtCon8 … until we meet again, because that’s what #DebtCon is about @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social

the platform brings together academics, lawyers, and data scientists to advance debt transparency and public access to sovereign debt information.

Developed through an interdisciplinary collaboration between Sovereign Debt Forum, Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law, and Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute

Now live at #DebtCon8: the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform — the first web-based, centrally collated sovereign debt documentation and data commons. 🔗 Explore the platform here: publicdebtispublic.mdi.georgetown.edu #DebtCon8 #SovereignDebt #DebtTransparency #PublicDebtIsPublic

🌍 Today at #DebtCon8 we’re launching the African Debt Database (ADD). The 1st instrument-level dataset covering both domestic and external sovereign debt across the African continent. With @markya.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social Niccolò Rescia, Christoph Trebesch, and Ka Lok Wong.

📂 Explore the open-access data: 👉 africandebtdatabase.com 📄 Read the associated paper: “Africa’s Domestic Debt Boom: Evidence from the African Debt Database” 👉 ideas.repec.org/p/aim/wpaimx... @agelpern.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradcfd.bsky.social

Thanks to Princeton SPIA in DC for hosting us on Monday, Day 1 of #DebtCon8 Starting at dawn with the existential question: Liquidity?! @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #SovereignDebtForum @findevlab.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social

It's the most wonderful time of the year....for debt geeks. @agelpern.bsky.social @upanizza.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social and I are so excited to welcome folks to DebtCon8! web.cvent.com/event/005168...

Join us for #DebtCon8, held in Washington, DC on October 13-15, 2025! www.law.georgetown.edu/iiel/initiat...

@upanizza.bsky.social #DebtCon8 is real & it’s 1glorious #DebtCon 3days 75papers 15panels 11 RTs 99speakers fr 6continents +10^6 #sovereigndebt acronyms eg #PSI #DSA #PCS #PDIP & #OMG aka #Argentina @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @georgetownlaw.bsky.social

Jet lagged but happy to be back in the US fior #DebCon8

Less than two weeks left ‘til the #PublicDebtIsPublic platform launch at #DebtCon8! 😮 #sovereigndebt #debtcon #sovereigndebtforum @georgetownlawofficial @upanizza.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social

A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications. www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da... @agelpern.bsky.social

Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!

Totally agree, but, in the meantime, Maryland could offer free vaccines to residents of D.C.,and ask fellow pro-science states to help with the cost.

"There really is one crucial, unbridgeable difference between Washingtonians and other Americans: You have more power than we do—a lot more power" Statehood for DC! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Micromanaging the day-to-day affairs of D.C. is not what voters elected the president and members of Congress in their home states to accomplish. We need D.C. statehood NOW: dcstatehoodnow.org

Take it from the citizens of DC. This is all a distraction, and another power grab that threatens the health of our democracy. op: @washingtonpost.com

“We see Chinese lenders expanding and adapting standard market tools to make exceptionally risky loans safer,” said Anna Gelpern, a Georgetown Law Professor and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “ @agelpern.bsky.social www.aiddata.org/blog/chinese...

"How China Collateralizes" ist eine Zusammenarbeit unserer Autor*innen Christoph Trebesch, Sebastian Horn und Paulina Kintzinger mit @agelpern.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @piie.com, Omar Haddad und Bradley Parks AidData @wm.edu ifw-kiel.de/de/publikati...

DebtNerds drinks at the very cool Ground Control in Paris with @agelpern.bsky.social @davidmihalyi.bsky.social @mkessler.bsky.social @theomaret.bsky.social @diegorivetti.bsky.social

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” *Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

Huge thanks to @taicollab.bsky.social and our amazing community for hosting the first sneak peak preview of the #publicdebispublic platform @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @massivedatagu.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social #sovereigndebt Stay tuned for pilot demo at #DebtCon8

5/ The legal side is just as important. Most contracts assume hard enforcement — but sovereign debt lives in a gray zone. Lawyers and economists often speak past each other. We try to bridge that gap

6/ TL;DR: Sovereign debt isn’t just about who can or can’t pay. It’s about who gets to write the rules of the game. ideas.repec.org/a/anr/reveco...

4/ Debt models built on “limited commitment” can’t handle the real world. Governments borrow more than they should, default less than predicted, and often repay despite having no legal reason to.

3/ We argue that it’s time to ditch the old split between developing countries and advanced economies and suggest that we’ve focused too much on immunity and not enough on authority — the state’s power to write rules, manage institutions, and shape financial architecture.

2/ “Sovereigns won’t repay because they can’t be forced to.” Right? Well… not so fast. We unpack how sovereign debt theory is stuck in the past — and what to do about it.

1/ Today I re-read "Enough Potential Repudiation: Economic and Legal Aspects of Sovereign Debt in the Pandemic Era" with @agelpern.bsky.social and published in the @annualreviews.bsky.social of Economics. I still think it's a cool paper 🧵 and link ideas.repec.org/a/anr/reveco...

📢 The Sovereign Debt Forum & Georgetown's Massive Data Institute have launched the #PublicDebtIsPublic initiative! This project will create the first web-based sovereign debt documentation and data commons, promoting transparency and accountability in government borrowing: bit.ly/4aD6j5A 🌍📊

Georgetown University Law Center Professor and Sovereign Debt Forum Academic Co-Director Anna Gelpern joined Sciences Po Sovereign Debt Chair, Professor Paola Subacchi, on the DebtTalks podcast at SciencesPo. Listen to the episode here:

Join us online for Public Debt Transparency: Aligning the Law with Good Practices, a conference co-organized with the International Monetary Fund Legal Department to examine the pressing challenges of making information about public debt accessible to its stakeholders. Scan QR Code Below.

Thrilled to spend a couple days talking all things sovereign debt at our annual @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social DC conference. psfl.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

German bonds rise with euro as investors head for Europe’s haven https://www.ft.com/content/88f47b5b-c12c-49f1-ad3b-61545510c80d

Best breakdown of the buildup leading up to, and context of this morning's SCOTUS ruling I've read so far. @stevevladeck.bsky.social does it again.

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

The Trump administration has threatened to block Harvard University from enrolling international students unless the school hands over detailed information about the student body, in yet another escalation of the government’s fight against higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

We were mid recording of this week’s episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social when this Wilkinson opinion dropped - you really hear him talking to not only the executive branch, but also his fellow conservatives on SCOTUS

The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Professor @mjschlanger.bsky.social as one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars for the 2025–2026 academic year. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/schlang...

Have questions about trade? Same. @chadpbown.com joins PIIE Insider LIVE on April 17 to discuss tariffs, tracking trade wars, & more. Register via Zoom to ask questions live: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Look for the rollout of The New Economic Nationalism by @mdebolle.com et al @piie.com Live webstream April 16, 2025, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT This is important. The evidence and argument the authors make is from years of serious research. It is not just a response to today, though relevant today.

Buy it here: www.piie.com/bookstore/20... Register for the April 16 book launch here: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Tomorrow 1p ET Live release of new forecasts for US and global growth, in light of the Trump tariff program from @piie.com featuring my own and those of Karen Dynan @chadpbown.com and @jfkirkegaard.bsky.social Global Economic Prospects: Spring 2025 www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover. Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

So all the White House political reporters are spending the weekend getting up to speed on the Abrego Garcia case and litigation related to the gulag in El Salvador so that they can prep good questions for Bukele’s visit on Monday, right? Right????????