In a CIGI co-sponsored event as part of the Brookings-Heinrich Boll Stiftung Eurozone breakfast series, CIGI fellows Susan Schadler, Richard Gitlin and Brett House will present their latest research on severe debt crises and the challenges these present for global financial cooperation. Focusing on the case of Greece, Schadler will present her new paper assessing the broader implications on how the euro crisis precipitated large IMF loans that violated the framework developed on the basis of the preceding decade to prevent a costly delay in restructuring. Drawing from the severe debt crises of Greece and Cyprus, Gitlin and House will discuss their proposal for the creation of a sovereign debt forum to address the lack of a simple and effective mechanism for dealing with sovereign debt crises.