International Sovereign Bonds by Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Drivers of Issuance and Spreads /

What determines the ability of low-income developing countries to issue bonds in international capital and what explains the spreads on these bonds? This paper examines these questions using a dataset that includes emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) that issued sovereign bonds at leas...

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Main Author: Presbitero, Andrea
Other Authors: Adedeji, Olumuyiwa, Ghura, Dhaneshwar, Njie, Lamin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/275
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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