Building bond markets in Latin America / Eduardo Borensztein ... [et al.] -- How can emerging market economies benefit from a corporate bond market? / Patrick Bolton and Xavier Freixas -- Development of the Mexican bond market / Sara G. Castellanos and Lorenza Martinez -- Corporate bond markets...

This study explores the determinants of corporate bond spreads in emerging markets economies. Using a largely unexploited dataset, the paper finds that corporate bond spreads are determined by firm-specific variables, bond characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, sovereign risk, and global...