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We analyze how concerns for model misspecification on the part of international lenders affect the desirability of issuing state-contingent debt instruments in a standard sovereign default model à la Eaton and Gersovitz (1981). We show that for the commonly used threshold state-contingent bond...
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As the economic disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic increased in March 2020, there was a global dash-for-cash by investors. This selling pressure occurred across advanced sovereign bond markets and caused a deterioration in market functioning, leading to central bank interventions....
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, closeness, and eigenvector centralities, to detect whether network properties drive the currency risk premia. We observe that … forward spread. Thus, our developed network centralities are independent of an unconditional carry trade risk factor. Based on …
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We analyze the time-varying nature of the price discovery process in the sovereign debt market over the sample period January 2006 – September 2015. In particular, we test whether the cointegration relationship that should tie bond and CDS spreads together holds over the entire sample. In...
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This paper proposes the introduction of a Global Sovereign Backed Crypto-currency called WorldMoney. WorldMoney will be an international reserve currency. We analyse the impact of WorldMoney on economies in a scenario where Sovereign Backed crypto-currencies will be the mainstream bills of...
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This paper studies whether IMF programs and their size affect borrowing costs by comparing the coupon of bonds issued around an IMF arrangement. By comparing bonds issued immediately before the inset of the program with bonds issued immediately after the program, we show that, on average, the...
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sovereign to corporate credit risk in Europe. A ten percent increase in sovereign credit risk raises corporate credit risk on … sovereign to corporate risk transfer …
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The first Greek bailout on April 11, 2010 triggered a significant reevaluation of sovereign credit risk across Europe …. We exploit this event to examine the transmission of sovereign to corporate credit risk. A ten percent increase in … sovereign credit risk raises corporate credit risk on average by 1.1 percent after the bailout. The evidence is suggestive of …
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This paper investigates the impact of international political risk on government bond yields in 34 debtor countries … number of international political crises as a proxy for political risk and controlling for country-specific economic … conditions, we establish a positive and significant link between international political risk and government bond yields. This is …
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vulnerabilities. Further, the paper presents operational issues faced by debt managers, including the need to develop a risk …
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