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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788518003321

Autore

Kumar Manmohan

Titolo

Policy Credibility and Sovereign Credit : : The Case of New EU Member States / / Manmohan Kumar, Jirí Jonáš, David Hauner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2007

ISBN

1-4623-3768-6

1-4527-6324-0

1-282-55821-8

1-4519-1018-5

9786613822352

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

JonášJirí

HaunerDavid

Disciplina

332

335.4/12

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Europe, Central

Fiscal policy - Europe, Eastern

Fiscal policy - European Union countries

Credit ratings - Europe, Central

Credit ratings - Europe, Eastern

Credit ratings - European Union countries

Debts, Public - Europe, Central

Debts, Public - Europe, Eastern

Debts, Public - European Union countries

Banks and Banking

Exports and Imports

Finance: General

Inflation

Money and Monetary Policy

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Current Account Adjustment

Short-term Capital Movements

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Price Level

Deflation



Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Monetary economics

International economics

Finance

Macroeconomics

Currencies

Current account balance

Emerging and frontier financial markets

Real interest rates

Money

Balance of payments

Financial markets

Prices

Financial services

Financial services industry

Interest rates

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2007."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Policy Credibility and Sovereign Credit; III. The Case of the New Member States; IV. Methodology and Data; A. Testing Strategy; B. Data; C. Estimation Issues; II. Results; A. All Countries; B. New Member States; C. Robustness; III. Conclusions; References; Figure; EU8-Government Debt, Interest Expenditure, and Effective Interest Rate (1995 = 100); Tables; 1. Variable Description; 2. Sovereign Ratings-Recursive Estimates; 3. Foreign Currency Spreads-Recursive Estimates; 4. Local Currency Yields-Recursive Estimates

5. Illustrative Quantitative Effects of NMS Coefficients6. Sovereign Ratings-Robustness Checks; 7. Foreign Currency Spreads-Robustness Checks; 8. Local Currency Yields-Robustness Checks; Appendix; Computation of Bond Spreads; Appendix; Computation of Bond Spreads

Sommario/riassunto

References to policy credibility, particularly with regard to fiscal policy, are ubiquitous in both economic literature and financial markets, even though it is not directly observable. The case of the EU new member states (NMS)-emerging markets joining a supranational entity that is generally considered to have higher policy credibility-provides a unique experiment to assess the effects of credibility on sovereign credit. This paper examines the impact of EU accession on three key variables that can reflect in varying degrees policy credibility: sovereign ratings, foreign currency spreads, and local currency yields. The results suggest that the NMS appear to have enjoyed higher credibility compared to their peers.