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Sovereign Risk and Belief-Driven Fluctuations in the Euro Area
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Kuester, Keith; Meier, André; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Sovereign risk premia in several euro area countries have risen markedly since 2008, driving up credit spreads in the private sector as well. We propose a New Keynesian model of a two-region monetary union that accounts for this “sovereign risk channel.” The model is calibrated to the euro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790357
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Pricing of Sovereign Credit Risk; Evidence From Advanced Economies During the Financial Crisis
Alper, C. Emre; Forni, Lorenzo; Gerard, Marc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We investigate the pricing of sovereign credit risk over the period 2008-2010 for selected advanced economies by examining two widely-used indicators: sovereign credit default swap (CDS) and relative asset swap (RAS) spreads. Cointegration analysis suggests the existence of an imperfect market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650642
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Capital Structure and International Debt Shifting
Laeven, Luc; Huizinga, Harry; Nicodeme, Gaetan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper presents a model of a multinational firm's optimal debt policy that incorporates international taxation factors. The model yields the prediction that a multinational firm's indebtedness in a country depends on a weighted average of national tax rates and differences between national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825596
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Public Debt Markets in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic
Jobst, Andreas; Valderrama, Laura; Guerra, Ivan; Shah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper-consisting of a regional study and seven country studies-reviews the state of domestic public debt markets in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama as at end-2005. Although they account for the lion's share of capital markets, regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825635
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U.S. Investors' Emerging Market Equity Portfolios; A Security-Level Analysis
Warnock, Francis E.; Edison, Hali J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
We analyze a unique data set and uncover a remarkable result that casts a new light on the home bias phenomenon. The data are comprehensive, security-level holdings of emerging market equities by U.S. investors. We document, as expected, that at a point in time U.S. portfolios are tilted towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825763
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Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets; Does the Exchange Rate Regime Make a Difference?
Philippon, Thomas; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin; Borensztein, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper compares the impact of shocks to U.S. interest rates and emerging market bond spreads on domestic interest rates and exchange rates across several emerging market economies with different exchange rate regimes. Consistent with conventional priors, the results indicate that interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825800
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Haircuts; Estimating Investor Losses in Sovereign Debt Restructurings, 1998-2005
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin; Sturzenegger, Federico - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper estimates bond-by-bond "haircuts"-realized investor losses-in recent debt restructurings in Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay. We consider both external and domestic retructurings. Haircuts are computed as the percentage difference between the present values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825806
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Volatility and Jump Risk Premia in Emerging Market Bonds
Matovu, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
There is strong evidence that interest rates and bond yield movements exhibit both stochastic volatility and … associated bond yields by estimating the volatility and jump risk premia in highly volatile markets. Using the simulated method … of moments (SMM), results suggest that all variants of models which do not take into account stochastic volatility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825819
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The Effects of Dividend Taxeson Equity Prices; A Re-Examination of the 1997 U.K. Tax Reform
Bond, Stephen; Klemm, Alexander; Devereux, Michael B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
We re-examine the extent to which personal taxes on dividends are capitalized into the equity prices of domestic firms, using data from around the time of the 1997 U.K. dividend tax reform, which removed a significant tax credit for an important group of investors: U.K. pension funds. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825898
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Credit Rationing in Emerging Economies' Access to Global Capital Markets
Zoli, Edda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper tests empirically the theoretical prediction that the country premium paid by emerging economies on sovereign debt increases with the amount of debt up to a certain critical level, above which the supply of foreign funds becomes fixed. The results confirm this theoretical prediction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825963