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...

We construct a state-dependent trivariate GARCH-M model to extract state-dependent risk-aversion coefficients around the 1997-1999 financial meltdown. These coefficients are further used to decompose sector risk into global (systematic), country-specific (diversifiable through global country...

This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the impact of globalisation on sovereignty by analysing how sovereign debt crises affect perceptions of sovereignty in the countries where they occur. I argue that sovereign debt crises are perceived as threats to sovereignty by citizens and...

The subject of debt relief for low income and highly indebted countries has risen to the fore of public debate in recent months. I review a brief history of major debt relief for low-income countries including the recent HIPC initiative and I discuss some factors that should be taken into...