List of Boxes

1.1 Debt glossary	9
1.2 The this-time-is-different syndrome on the eve of the Crash of 1929	16
5.1 The development of international sovereign debt markets in England and Spain	69
5.2 External default penalized: The extraordinary case of Newfoundland, 1928-1933	81
5.3 External default penalized? The case of the missing "Brady bunch"	83
6.1 France's graduation after eight external defaults, 1558-1788	88
6.2 Latin America's early days in international capital markets, 1822-1826	93
7.1 Foreign currency-linked domestic debt: Thai tesobonos?	108
16.1 Global financial crises: A working definition	260