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...

By using an existing and a new convergence measure, this paper assesses whether bank loan and bond interest rates are converging for the non-financial corporate sector across the euro area. Whilst we find evidence for complete bond market integration, the market for bank loans remains segmented,...

This paper provides the first comprehensive documentation of how firms use domestic and international corporate bond markets. Debt issues in domestic and international markets have different characteristics, not explained by differences across firms or countries. International issues tend to be...