Two of the most important areas of inquiry in contemporary international relations theory and policy involve globalization and the utility of non-military instruments of statecraft such as sanctions. Debates have centered around whether, how, and how much increased globalization has undermined...

This paper focuses on emerging markets government bonds issued in local currency with different maturities. Foreign investors face interest rate, currency, and credit risks. We consider the entire term structure of carry trade returns and find that, while the default premium does not contribute...

Purpose - The study aims to analyze and compare the influence of country-specific fundamentals and global conditions on sovereign risk of Sri Lanka within the sample period of 2006-2019 while employing Treasury bond rates as proxy for sovereign risk. Design/methodology/approach - The determinant...

This paper applies the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness methodology on sovereign credit default swaps (SCDSs) to estimate the global network structure of sovereign credit risk. The level of credit risk connectedness among sovereigns, which is quite high, is comparable to the connected- ness among...

We examine the effects of increased international integration of both goods and financial markets on business cycle dynamics. To do so, we develop a new econometric framework for modelling cross-country spillovers in which the magnitude of these spillovers is an empirically determined function...