What Explains Changing Spreads on Emerging-Market Debt: Fundamentals or Market Sentiment? / Barry Eichengreen, Ashoka Mody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichengreen, Barry.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mody, Ashoka.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6408.

NBER working paper series no. w6408

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

What Explains Changing Spreads on Emerging-Market Debt

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.

Summary:

In this paper we analyze data on nearly 1,000 developing-country bonds issued in the years 1991-96 the recent episode of heavy reliance on bonded debt. We analyze both the issue decision of debtors and the pricing decision of investors, minimizing selectivity bias by treating the two issues jointly. Overall, the results confirm that higher credit quality translates into a higher probability of issue and a lower spread. Importantly, however, we find that observed changes in fundamentals explain only a fraction of the spread compression in the period leading up to the recent crisis in emerging markets.

Notes:

Print version record

February 1998.