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How to Evaluate GDP-Linked Warrants: Price and Repayment Capacity

By Ken Miyajima

March 1, 2006

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Ken Miyajima. How to Evaluate GDP-Linked Warrants: Price and Repayment Capacity, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

Following a brief review of the recent history of GDP-linked instruments, this paper proposes a set of tools to examine the quantitative properties of GDP-linked warrants. It argues that trigger conditions should be clearly identifiable and payment amounts easily calculable. Based on a design that includes these features and historical data for the main EMBI countries, the paper provides an assessment of the issuer's capacity to service GDP-linked warrants, comparing payments with tax revenues stemming from contemporaneous growth. The price of the GDP-linked warrants are then estimated from the point of view of both domestic and foreign investors.

Subject: Currencies, Debt service, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rates, Inflation

Keywords: GDP-linked warrant, Payment, Price, Real GDP, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2006/085

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2006085

  • ISBN:

    9781451863451

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941