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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779266403321

Titolo

Government Debt Issuance in the Euro Area : : The Impact of the Financial Crisis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2011

ISBN

1-4623-1435-X

1-4552-9019-X

1-283-55406-2

9786613866516

1-4552-1253-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/11/21

Soggetti

State bonds - European Union countries

Debts, Public - European Union countries

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Euro area

Financial Risk Management

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Industries: General

Truncated and Censored Models

Switching Regression Models

Threshold Regression Models

'Panel Data Models

Spatio-temporal Models'

International Lending and Debt Problems

International Finance: Other

International Financial Markets

Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Price Level

Deflation

Financial Crises

Monetary Systems



Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Macroeconomics: Production

Macroeconomics

Public finance & taxation

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Monetary economics

Public debt

Financial crises

Currencies

Industrial production

Prices

Money

Production

Debts, Public

Industries

Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2011"--P. [1].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Database and Stylized Facts; A. Database; B. Stylized Facts; 1. Changes in the Structure of Sovereign Borrowing; III. Econometric Analysis and Results; A. Determinants of Total Issuance; 2A. Determinants of Total Debt Issuance; 2B. Determinants of Total Debt Issuance-Exploring Heterogeneity; B. Determinants of Issuance Composition; 3A. Determinants of Auction Share in Total Issuance-Censored Tobit Estimation; 3B. Determinants of Auction Share in Total Issuance-Exploring Heterogeneity

4A. Determinants of DLTF Issuance-Censored Tobit Estimation4B. Determinants of DLTF Issuance-Exploring Heterogeneity; IV. Conclusion; A1. Changes in Total Debt Issuance; A2. Changes in Number of Issues; A3. Changes in Average Size of Issue; A4. Variable Definitions and Sources; Determinants of Total Debt Issuance-Estimated in Levels; References; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

This paper documents and analyzes crisis-related changes in government debt issuance practices in the 16 euro zone countries and Denmark. Using a newly constructed database on primary market debt issuance during 2007-09, we find evidence of a shift away from pre-crisis standards of best funding practices competitive auctions of debt instruments with a fixed coupon, long maturity and local currency denomination (DLTF). Exploiting the cross-country panel data dimension of the data, we conclude that the crisis and related changes in the macroeconomic environment and investor sentiment can account for a significant proportion of the deviation. The negative effect of the crisis on DLTF debt issuance was especially pronounced in high deficit



and high debt euro area countries, and has forced governments to assume additional risk.