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This paper explores international bond spillovers using daily and intra-day data on yields on inflation-indexed bonds … Kingdom. The analysis starts in 2002, by which point U.S. inflation-indexed markets were fully mature. Real bond yields are …
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, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going …
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, Japanese, and UK government bond and equity markets in a vector autoregression. The results suggest that U.S. financial shocks …
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Growth-indexed bonds have been suggested as a way of reducing the procyclicality of emerging-market countries'' fiscal policies and the likelihood of costly debt crises. Investor attitude surveys suggest that pricing difficulties are seen as a considerable obstacle. In an effort to reduce such...
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Following a brief review of the recent history of GDP-linked instruments, this paper proposes a set of tools to examine the quantitative properties of GDP-linked warrants. It argues that trigger conditions should be clearly identifiable and payment amounts easily calculable. Based on a design...
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A number of industrialized countries have recently offered inflation-indexed bonds. Some members of another group of countries that had earlier adopted more comprehensive indexation in response to high inflation have taken steps to reduce the scope of indexation in their economies. This paper...
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This paper examines how emerging bond markets react to macroeconomic announcements. Global bond spreads respond to …
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that the extent to which fiscal variables affect domestic bond yields in emerging economies depends on the level of global … domestic bond yields in emerging economies. However, when market participants are on edge, they pay greater attention to …
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African bond markets have been steadily growing in recent years, but nonetheless remain undeveloped. African countries … corporate bond markets in Africa. It then applies an econometric model to analyze the key determinants of African government … securities market and corporate bond market capitalization. Government securities market capitalization is directly related to …
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