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The effects of data transparency policy reforms on emerging market sovereign bond spreads /

We find that data transparency policy reforms, reflected in subscriptions to the IMF's Data Standards Initiatives (SDDS and GDDS), reduce the spreads of emerging market sovereign bonds. To overcome endogeneity issues regarding a country's decision to adopt such reforms, we first show that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Choi, Sangyup (Autor), Hashimoto, Yuko (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, [2017]
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/17/74.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Abstract; I. Introduction; II. Econometric Models and Data; A. An Event Study; B. Data Description; III. Empirical Results; A. Data Transparency Policy Reform Decisions and the Macroeconomic Conditions; B. Do Data Transparency Policy Reforms Reduce Sovereign Bond Spreads?; IV. Robustness Checks and Further Results; A. Global Control Variables and the Treatment of a Dependent Variable; B. Treatment of Outliers and Overlapping Events; C. Lagged Dependent Variable; D. Controlling for Additional Macroeconomic Factors; E. Alternative Control Variables.
  • F. Placebo Test: False Dates of the Data Transparency Policy ReformsG. Subscription vs. Compliance to the SDDS; H. Non-linearity in Data Transparency Policy Reforms: SDDS vs. GDDS; V. Conclusion; References; Figures; 1. The EMBIG Spreads Prior to and After Data Transparency Policy Reforms; 2. The EMBIG Spreads Prior to and After Data Transparency Policy Reforms: Placebo Test; 3. Conditional Mean of Selected Variables Around Data Transparency Policy Reforms; Tables; 1. Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Sovereign Bond Spreads.
  • 2. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Sovereign Bond Spreads: Baseline3. Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Sovereign Bond Spreads: Robustness Checks; 4. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Sovereign Bond Spreads: Controlling for Macroeconomic Factors; 5. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Sovereign Bond Spreads: Controlling for Additional Factors; 6. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms on Sovereign Bond Spreads: Placebo Test; 7. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms: Subscriptions vs. Compliance.
  • 8. Impact of Data Transparency Policy Reforms: SDDS vs. GDDSAppendix Tables; A.1. Data description; A.2. SDDS Subscription and GDDS Participation Dates, and the EMBIG Coverage; A.3. Assigning Numerical Values to Fitch's Letter Credit Ratings.