Sovereign Defaults : The Role of Volatility /

While the relationship between volatility and credit risk is central to much of the literature on finance and banking, it has been largely neglected in empirical macro studies on sovereign defaults. This paper presents new econometric estimates for a panel of 25 emerging market countries over 1970-2...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sutton, Bennett
Other Authors: Catao, Luis
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/149
Online Access:Full text available on IMF