Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads : Estimation and Back-testing /

We estimate sovereign bond spreads of 28 emerging economies over the period January 1998-December 2011 and test the ability of the model in generating accurate in-sample predictions for emerging economies bond spreads. The impact and significance of country-specific and global explanatory variables...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Comelli, Fabio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/212
Online Access:Full text available on IMF