This paper analyzes influences on the credit standing of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), specifically the quality, diversification and single name concentration of their portfolios, and on the market practice known as Preferred Creditor Status (PCS), whereby sovereigns that default on...

Default of a sovereign entity was usually considered an extremely rare event. Similarly, countries were not commonly supposed to go bankrupt and, therefore, government bonds are usually considered a good proxy of risk-free rates, notwithstanding the more or less recent cases of default and debt...

We compare two different approaches to assess country default risk by evaluating their forecast accuracy. In particular we analyze whether market based or rating based risk assessment is superior. To evaluate the forecast accuracy we analyze the differences between several default risk measures...