A Primer for Risk Measurement of Bonded Debt from the Perspective of a Sovereign Debt Manager /

This paper presents some conventional and new measures of market, credit, and liquidity risks for government bonds. These measures are analyzed from the perspective of a sovereign's debt manager. In particular, it examines duration, convexity, M-square, skewness, kurtosis, and VaR statistics as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papaioannou, Michael
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/195
Online Access:Full text available on IMF