Pension Privatization and Country Risk /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cuevas, Alfredo
Other Authors: Gonzalez, Maria, Lombardo, Davide, Lopez-Marmolejo, Arnoldo
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/195
Online Access:Full text available on IMF