How Private Creditors Fared in Emerging Debt Markets, 1970-2000

 
Author/Editor: Klingen, Christoph ; Weder, Beatrice ; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
 
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
 
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Summary: We estimate ex post returns to emerging market debt by combining secondary-market prices with observed flows based on World Bank data. From 1970-2000, returns averaged 9 percent per annum, about the same as returns on a ten-year U.S. treasury bond. This reflects the combined effect of the 1980s debt crisis and much higher returns during 1989-2000. Annual returns since 1986 have been less volatile than emerging market equity returns but more volatile than returns on U.S. corporate or high-yield bonds. However, unlike returns on these bonds, emerging market debt returns do not seem significantly correlated with U.S. or world stock markets.
 
Series: Working Paper No. 04/13
Subject(s): Debt | Capital flows | emerging markets | Venezuela, República Bolivariana de | Turkey | Jordan | Panama | Ecuador | Philippines | Malaysia | Brazil | Côte d'Ivoire | Argentina | Pakistan | Lebanon | Colombia | Morocco | Peru | Nigeria | Korea, Republic of | Algeria | Chile | Thailand | Indonesia | Mexico

Author's Keyword(s): Sovereign debt | debt crises | returns | capital flows
 
English
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 1934-7073 Format: Paper
Stock No: WPIEA0132004 Pages: 59
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