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Pension privatization and country risk / / Alfredo Cuevas [and three others]



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Titolo: Pension privatization and country risk / / Alfredo Cuevas [and three others] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (27 p.)
Disciplina: 331.252
Soggetto topico: Pensions - Econometric models
Privatization - Econometric models
Debts, Public - Econometric models
Country risk - Econometric models
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: CuevasAlfredo  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; I. Introduction; II. Country Risk, Credit Ratings and Implicit Pension Debt (IPD); Figures; 1. Standard and Poor's Creidt Ratings and Government Debt; 2. Risk Premia and International Investor Ratings; III. Econometric Analysis; Tables; 1. Institutional Investor Ratings (IIR), IPD and Debt; 2. IIR and Pension Reform: Static Panel Estimation with Fixed Effects; 3. IIR and Pension Reform: Dynamic Panel (2SLS) Estimation Results; IV. A Counterfactual Study: Mexico's Pension Reform; A. Pension Privation in Mexico; B. Risk Assessment
3. Mexico: Counterfactual Explicit Debt and Primary Balance4. Estimated Impact of Pension Reform on IIR; 4. Mexico: Counterfactual IIR; V. Conclusion; VI. Annexes; References
Sommario/riassunto: This paper explores how privatizing a pension system can affect sovereign credit risk. For this purpose, it analyzes the importance that rating agencies give to implicit pension debt (IPD) in their assessments of sovereign creditworthiness. We find that rating agencies generally do not seem to give much weight to IPD, focusing instead on explicit public debt. However, by channeling pension contributions away from the government and creating a deficit of resources to cover the current pension liabilities during the reform's transition period, a pension privatization reform may transform IPD int
Titolo autorizzato: Pension privatization and country risk  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4623-7193-0
1-4527-6623-1
1-4518-7053-1
9786612841460
1-282-84146-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463608803321
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Serie: IMF Working Papers