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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162944003321

Autore

Hadzi-Vaskov Metodij

Titolo

Does Gross or Net Debt Matter More for Emerging Market Spreads? / / Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Luca Ricci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-6898-3

1-4755-6900-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 pages) : illustrations

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

RicciLuca

Disciplina

336.3435091724

Soggetti

Debts, Public - Developing countries

Debts, Public

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

International Financial Markets

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Monetary Policy

Price Level

Deflation

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Finance

Public finance & taxation

Banking

Macroeconomics

Monetary economics

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Public debt

International reserves

Credit default swap

Financial markets

Central banks



Prices

Money

Financial services industry

Foreign exchange reserves

Credit

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Does gross or net debt matter for long-term sovereign spreads in emerging markets? The topic is important for undestanding the borrowing cost implications of public assetliability management decisions (e.g. using assets to lower debt). We investigate this question using data on emerging market economies (EMEs) over the period 1998–2014. We find that both gross debt and assets have a significant impact on long-term sovereign bond spreads in emerging markets, with effects roughly offsetting each other (coefficients of opposite sign and similar magnitude). Hence, net debt seems more appropriate than gross debt when evaluating the impact of indebtedness on spreads. The empirical results suggest that an increase in net debt by 10 percentage points of GDP implies an increase in the spread by 100–120 basis points, and the effect is larger during periods of domestic distress. The key results from this empirical study are quite robust to alternative specifications and subgroups of EMEs.