The paper investigates the international integration of EM sovereign dollar-denominatedand local-currency bond markets. Factor analysis is used to examine movements insovereign bond yields and common sources of yield variation. The results suggest that EMdollar-denominated sovereign debt markets...

The paper investigates the international integration of EM sovereign dollar-denominated and local-currency bond markets. Factor analysis is used to examine movements in sovereign bond yields and common sources of yield variation. The results suggest that EM dollar-denominated sovereign debt...

Since the Asian crisis, ASEAN5 countries have expended considerable effort in trying to develop their domestic bond markets. Yet today these markets are not much larger, relative to GDP, than they were a decade before. How can we explain this? And does this mean that domestic markets have not,...