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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162944203321

Autore

Alter Adrian

Titolo

Emerging Market Corporate Leverage and Global Financial Conditions / / Adrian Alter, Selim Elekdag

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9781475560497

1475560494

9781475569094

1475569092

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (50 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ElekdagSelim

Disciplina

658.1526

Soggetti

Corporate debt

Corporate Finance

Exports and Imports

Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Banks and Banking

International Investment

Long-term Capital Movements

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

Financing Policy

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Capital and Ownership Structure

Value of Firms

Goodwill

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Corporate Finance and Governance: General

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Currency

Foreign exchange

International economics

Finance

Ownership & organization of enterprises

Banking

Exchange rate arrangements

Exchange rate flexibility

Capital account



Financial sector development

Small and medium enterprises

Balance of payments

Financial markets

Central bank policy rate

Financial services

Financial services industry

Small business

Interest rates

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Corporate debt in emerging markets has risen significantly in recent years amid accommodative global financial conditions. This paper studies the relationship of leverage growth in emerging market (EM) firms to U.S. monetary conditions, and more broadly, to global financial conditions. We find that accommodative U.S. monetary conditions are reliably associated with faster EM leverage growth during the past decade. Specifically, a 1 percentage point decline in the U.S. policy rate corresponds to an appreciable increase in EM leverage growth of 9 basis points, on average (relative to the sample average leverage growth of 35 basis points per year). This impact is more pronounced for sectors dependent on external financing, for SMEs, and for firms in more financially open EMs with less flexible exchange rates. The findings suggest that global financial conditions affect EM firms’ leverage growth in part by influencing domestic interest rates and by relaxing corporate borrowing constraints.