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For example, US multinational corporations sometimes over-invoice import bills or under-report export earnings to reduce their tax obligations.

If Citi was facing bigger losses than those already known, could it make good on new obligations to trading partners and lenders?

A loan buy-down is a transaction in which a third party pays down part of a loan by softening its terms or reducing the principal outstanding, thereby releasing the borrowing country from all or some of its future repayment obligations.

Creditors, asserting their right to be repaid in full, historically have created as many legal and political obstacles to default as possible, insisting on harsh sanctions – garnishment of income, for example, and, at the extreme, imprisonment or even slavery – for borrowers’ failure to honor their debt obligations.

When quantitative precision and an unyielding approach to debt obligations are the rule, conflict and penury soon follow.

There is a case, too, for looking again at the operation of circuit-breakers (which helped the Chicago markets in the crash), and for increasing the obligations on market makers.

Such steps must be carefully calibrated, as greater obligations, for example, could push market makers out of the market.

The good is a capable state: a bureaucracy that can protect the country and its people, keep the peace, enforce rules and contracts, provide infrastructure and social services, regulate economic activity, credibly enter into inter-temporal obligations, and tax society to pay for it all.

For starters, there is the public-good element of many infrastructure projects, which demands contingent government obligations like universal coverage levels for basic services.

As I argue in my new book The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, the burden that these obligations will impose on Americans – in the form of higher taxes and fewer benefits – will weaken public support for the expansive international role that the United States has played since World War II.

Economists estimate that it will cost France €500 ($573) per person per year to meet its emissions-reduction obligations under the 2015 Paris climate accord.

Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol’s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has insisted on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of “taxation” of emissions.

But there are persuasive reasons why these countries insist that the obligations must instead reflect per capita emissions, a criterion that would require far greater emission cuts by the US than its leaders now contemplate.

And it would remind Russia of its international legal obligations, specifically as a member of both the OSCE and the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, including Russia and others who flout some its conventions.

It has clarified the meaning and obligations of the Hague and Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners and civilians in occupied territories.

And, because the proceeds of any new investment will be taxed away to service existing obligations, the debt overhang discourages private investment and growth.

Second, creditors who stayed in – by swapping old obligations either for new Brady bonds or for local equity – typically did very well.

Without it, on whose behalf would the state – which is supposed to make decisions, define and protect rights, and impose obligations – be acting?

If their export revenues were to plunge relative to their debt-service obligations, the result could be crises reminiscent of Latin America’s in 1982 or the Asian and Russian currency crises of 1997-1998.

For Western societies – weighed down by credits, contracts, and other obligations – conflict is extremely costly, so they tend to resist it, and even turn on leaders who suggest it.

As a result, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) have more than doubled this year, reaching an overall market value of $460 billion.

That looks a lot like the surge in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that helped to drive the 2008 financial crisis.

With strong exports, it should have no problem meeting its debt obligations, so long as interest rates do not soar to levels that turn a problem into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Indeed, over the last few years, developed countries have increasingly sought to evade their climate obligations.

The answer is that such questions were never an option, if we were to fulfill our treaty obligations and avoid a catastrophic repeat of nineteenth-century colonialism.

The FSB’s charter, revised in 2012, says that signatories are subject to no legal obligations whatsoever.

It also has obligations to its neighbors, to the world community (not to support terrorism, for example), and to its citizens.

The world should not sit idly by as Iran’s regime fails to meet these obligations.

As the occupation force in Iraq, the coalition has undertaken international obligations, under the fourth Geneva convention, to uphold security and the rule of law.

But the EU so far has chosen to ignore that Gazprom’s monopoly is a clear violation of the anti-trust and competition policies of the revised Rome Treaty and WTO obligations.

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