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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788346103321

Autore

Guscina Anastasia

Titolo

Impact of Macroeconomic, Political, and Institutional Factors on the Structure of Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries / / Anastasia Guscina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-1038-9

1-4518-7063-9

1-282-84156-4

9786612841569

1-4519-9838-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (45 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/205

Disciplina

336.3435091724

Soggetti

Debts, Public - Developing countries - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Developing countries - Econometric models

Exports and Imports

Finance: General

Money and Monetary Policy

Public Finance

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

International Lending and Debt Problems

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Public finance & taxation

International economics

Monetary economics

Finance

Domestic debt

Public debt

Foreign currency debt

Currencies



Securities markets

Debts, Public

Debts, External

Money

Capital market

Developing countries Economic conditions Econometric models

Developing countries Politics and government

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Debt crises that have shaken Latin America, Asia, and Russia have brought an increasing attention to the structure of debt in emerging market countries. Using the newly released Jeanne-Guscina EM Government Debt Database 2006 this paper empirically explores the role of macroeconomic, political, and institutional factors in determining the structure of government debt. Results show that unstable macroeconomic environment, poor quality institutions, and uncertain political climate hinder the development of domestic debt market. Moreover, such instability shifts the debt structure away from long-term local currency fixed rate debt towards short-term debt or to debt indexed to foreign currency, short-term interest rates or inflation. Original sin seems to be on the way out, as more and more countries are issuing local currency debt at longer maturities-which can be explained by successful macroeconomic stabilization policies and lessons learned from the debt crises.