This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but underexplored deb

This paper describes the compilation of the Global Debt Database (GDD), a cutting-edge dataset covering private and public debt for virtually the entire world (

The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many

This volume presents a selection of contributions to the XXIV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Public debt, global governance and economic

This introduction analyses the nature and characteristics of global debt dynamics in the post global financial crisis period. First, we attempt to map the ways