David Mihalyi
@davidmihalyi
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Senior Economist at @WorldBank & PhD candidate @kielinstitute. On bsky: davidmihalyi
Washington DC
Joined April 2009
#HiddenDebtRevelations! How reliable are public debt stats? Our working paper with S. Horn, @NickolPhilipp, @cesarspa1 is out today analyzing hidden sovereign debts across 146 countries and 53 years. Let’s dive in! ⬇️
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Kudos for wonderful program to @AGelpern & team, can't wait!
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And an exciting revamp of our African Debt Database featured later on day 1 w. Niccolò Rescia, @BelaichThomas, @upanizza, @MarkManger, @Ch_Trebesch, @SteveKLWong.
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I'll be presenting on how to Assess Creditor Contributions to Easing the EM Liquidity Crunch in the opening plenary (paper w @RivettiDiego , @anirudhsb).
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DebtCon meets The Odd Lots. Awesome conference program feat. @tracyalloway, @HyunSongShin , Lee Buchheit, ...
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Debt swaps have often been assessed using inconsistent metrics, leading to unclear evaluations of their financial benefits. To address this, we’ve developed a streamlined online tool that introduces clarity through standardized, transparent indicators:
worldbank.org
The Debt Swap Calculator helps you analyze potential savings from conducting debt swaps. It allows you to compare existing debt instruments with a new debt option to determine if refinancing would be...
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Sovereign debt data is improving, but the devil is in the details. In a new @WorldBank report,@RivettiDiego, @davidmihalyi, @anirudhsb, Roberto Lobarinhas, and I look at how debt transparency has evolved since COVID. A few of my thoughts: https://t.co/tHlJgb2W01
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This report calls for a radical shift toward debt transparency as critical to debt sustainability, urging legislative reforms, stronger oversight of unconventional debt, broader loan-level reporting,...
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I’m now in the other place where the sky is blu and there is so much less vile and dumb crap in my feed everyday.
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1/5 Official announcement from WB regarding expansion of CRDCs to cover a much wider range of hazards beyond those for which reliable parametric triggers are available for @jsphctrl @emilycwilkinson @MichaiRobertson @davidmihalyi @nkearse2016
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The World Bank Group has expanded its lifeline to countries struggling to rebuild from disasters, allowing small, vulnerable states to postpone loan and interest repayments after a catastrophic event...
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Great to listen to @Ch_Trebesch giving an historical overview @IMFNews of official lending over cycles of war and peace—very relevant given current geopolitical tensions. #debt
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Our paper “Hidden Debt Revelations” (with @davidmihalyi @NickolPhilipp and Sebastian Hirn) is the ‘featured paper of the day’ in the NBER’s website. Thanks @nberpubs for promoting our work.
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A first - measuring impact of debt transparency on borrowing costs using natural experiment of Cameroon's temporary contract disclosure regime. By @leecrawfurd and Theodore Mitchell of @CGDev
Publish What You Lend
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Family picture at the PDM conference. Great fun & great seeing so many friends
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"Opaque borrowing also hinders debt restructuring." A tonne of public debt is never made public https://t.co/fEeEyWpN1a from @TheEconomist
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New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing
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The Economist (@TheEconomist) just published an article discussing our new "Hidden Debt Revelations" paper (joint w/ Sebastian Horn, @davidmihalyi and @NickolPhilipp). Check it out! https://t.co/o8k4p44jLT
economist.com
New research suggests governments routinely hide their borrowing
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Recommendations from the Task Force on @IMF Climate Change, and Development on how to incorporate climate risk into the LIC Debt Sustainability Analysis @brettonwoodspr @BrettonWoodsCom @TheoMaret @UliVolz @Charlotte_Grds
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🚨🚨Very happy that our paper (@DannyCassimon @DennisEssers) on why debtor countries are hesitant to participate in #debt relief initiatives has been accepted at the World Bank Economic Review. The real option framing is relevant for the current discussion on #sovereign debt
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New @Moodys note on 🇸🇳 Senegal discusses audit induced large jump in public debt in the context of our research on hidden debts (w Horn, @cesarspa1, @NickolPhilipp).
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Blown away by @google #NotebookLM's AI audio tool. An excerpt of podcast chat it generated based of our 'Hidden Debt Revelations' paper w Horn, @cesarspa1 , @NickolPhilipp
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Constructing a novel dataset using the history of World Bank debt statistics and quantifying hidden debt finds that debt stats are systematically under-reported. Also, studying its impact on default risk, from Horn, @davidmihalyi, Nickol, and @cesarspa1
https://t.co/VfeiBfGulq
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