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Anna Gelpern is a legal scholar and expert on sovereign debt and financial regulation. She is Professor of Law and… more

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by Anna Gelpern — Reposted by: Ugo Panizza

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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
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PublicDebtIsPublic @publicdebtispublic.bsky.social · 6d
Debt transparency is essential for:

✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets

#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.

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Debt transparency is essential for:

✅ Democratic governance
✅ Sound economic management
✅ Properly functioning financial markets

#PublicDebtIsPublic is shifting debt information norms to establish meaningful public access to the legal and financial terms of public debt.

#SovereignDebt
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by Matthew S. Erie — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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.

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Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?

Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!
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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.
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Reason No. 9000 for #DCStatehood.
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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
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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
An ACLU tweet against a backdrop of D.C. rowhomes reads, "We need DC statehood NOW."
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by Anne Applebaum — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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"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!
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A Real Place Deserves Real Rights
Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice.
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My friend @agelpern.bsky.social made my day by reviewing "'Least-Cost' Resolution" in @jotwell.bsky.social!

"A far more expansive replacement of the current cost test ... would surely set off a political battle. At least we would be battling over the right things."💯
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A Costly Cost Test - Corporate Law
Jeremy C. Kress, "Least-Cost" Resolution, 43 Yale J. on Reg. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Sep. 03, 2024).Anna GelpernBanks have magic powers: they can conjure money out of thin air, send...
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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.
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by Anna Gelpern

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What happens is negotiated. What should happen depends on all-in terms, which can be hard to discern.

by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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
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"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
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China verlangt umfassende Sicherheiten für Kredite an Entwicklungsländer
Chinas Staatsbanken verlangen für Kredite an Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer oft umfangreiche Sicherheiten, die über die typische Absicherung zwischen Staaten hinausgehen und den Anforderungen priva...
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“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...
Out of public sight, China’s state-backed lenders secure priority repayment from emerging economies with cash collateral
New report and cache of Chinese debt contracts reveal that the commodity export revenues of developing countries are routed to offshore bank accounts, raising fiscal governance and debt transparency c...
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by Anna Gelpern

agelpern.bsky.social
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
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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.
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Enough Potential Repudiation: Economic and Legal Aspects of
This article reviews recent economic and legal literature on sovereign debt in light of the COVID-19 shock. Most of the core theoretical contributions across the two disciplines hinge on immunity, and
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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.
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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.
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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“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.
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by Ugo Panizza — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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
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Enough Potential Repudiation: Economic and Legal Aspects of
This article reviews recent economic and legal literature on sovereign debt in light of the COVID-19 shock. Most of the core theoretical contributions across the two disciplines hinge on immunity, and
ideas.repec.org
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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.
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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:
Episode 11. Public debt is public: shifting the norm to transparency
Podcast Episode · DebtTalks · 04/08/2025 · 40m
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Thrilled to spend a couple days talking all things sovereign debt at our annual @princetonsovfinlab.bsky.social DC conference.

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by Stephen I. Vladeck — Reposted by: Anna Gelpern

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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...
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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