Lost and Found : Market Access and Public Debt Dynamics /

The empirical literature on sovereign debt crises identifies the level of public debt (measured as a share of GDP) as a key variable to predict debt defaults and to determine sovereign market access. This evidence has led to the widespread use of (country-specific) debt thresholds to assess debt sus...

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Glavni autor: Cottarelli, Carlo
Daljnji autori: Bassanetti, Antonio, Presbitero, Andrea
Format: Žurnal
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/253
Online pristup:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a The empirical literature on sovereign debt crises identifies the level of public debt (measured as a share of GDP) as a key variable to predict debt defaults and to determine sovereign market access. This evidence has led to the widespread use of (country-specific) debt thresholds to assess debt sustainability. We argue that the level of the debt-to-GDP ratio, whose use is justified on a theoretical and empirical ground, should not be the only fiscal metric to assess the complex relationship between public debt and debt defaults/market access. In particular, we show that, in a large panel of emerging markets, the dynamics of the debt ratio plays a critical role for market access. In particular, given a certain level of debt, a steadily declining debt ratio is associated with a lower probability of debt distress/market loss and with a higher likelihood of market re-access once access had been lost. 
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