Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization

Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870-1913 and Today
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927269-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 425 g

The frequency and virulence of recent financial crises have led to calls for reform of the current international financial architecture. In an effort to learn more about today's international financial environment, the authors turn to an earlier era of financial globalization between 1870 and 1913. By examining data on sovereign bonds issued by borrowing developing countries in this earlier period and in the present day, the authors are able to identify the characteristics of successful borrowers in the two periods. They are then able to show that global crises or contagion are a feature of the 1990s which was hardly known in the previous era of globalization. Finally, the authors draw lessons for today from archival data on mechanisms used by British investors in the 19th century to address sovereign defaults. Using new qualitative and quantitative data, the authors skilfully apply a variety of approaches in order to better understand how problems of volatility and debt crises are dealt with in international financial markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mauro, Paolo

Sussman, Nathan

Yafeh, Yishay

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- List of Tables

- List of Figures

- Preface and Acknowledgements

- 1: International Capital Flows in the Previous Era of Globalization: An Overview and Outline of the Book and its Objectives

- 2: The London Market for Sovereign Debt, 1870-1913 versus Today's Markets

- 3: The Determinants of the Cost of Capital: Case Study Evidence

- 4: News and Sharp Changes in Bond Spreads

- 5: Spreads, News, and Macroeconomics: A Multivariate Regression Analysis

- 6: Co-movement of Spreads: Fundamentals or Investor Behavior?

- 7: Sovereign Defaults and the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders

- 8: A Few Lessons for the Future

- Appendix 1: Emerging Market Bonds and Spreads, 1870-1913

- Appendix 2: Macroeconomic Data Sources, 1870-1913

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Paolo Mauro is a Senior Economist in the Strategic Issues Division, Research Department at the IMF. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1994 and is Editor of the quarterly IMF Research Bulletin.

Nathan Sussman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Co-director of the Minerva Center. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

Yishay Yafeh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Business Administration and Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Montreal and was Alon Lecturer of Economics and East Asian Studies, the Hebrew University. He is an Academic Consultant to the Bank of Israel Research Department.