In traditional bond markets, sovereign bonds provide benchmarks and serve as catalysts for the corporate bond market … development. Contrary to the usual sequence of bond market development, sovereign issuers are latecomers to sustainable bond … markets. Yet, our empirical study finds that sovereign green bond issuance can have quantitative and qualitative benefits for …

This study empirically analyzes the determinants of bond market development in a cross section of 23 sub …-Saharan African (SSA) countries between 1990 and 2008. It considers the stage of development and the size of the bond market, as well … as the historical, structural, institutional and macroeconomic factors driving bond market development in SSA. The study …

to provide issuers and other stakeholders with a comprehensive view of the ESG bond marketplace …

We estimate sovereign bond spreads of 28 emerging economies over the period January 1998-December 2011 and test the … ability of the model in generating accurate in-sample predictions for emerging economies bond spreads. The impact and … significance of country-specific and global explanatory variables on bond spreads varies across regions, as well as economic …

risk premiums as measured by sovereign bond spreads. Unlike previous studies, the results indicate that both fiscal and …

shown that bid-ask spreads (a proxy for market liquidity) and yields are closely related to bond characteristics such as …