Real Money Investors and Sovereign Bond Yields

December 19, 2013

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Laura Jaramillo, and Yuanyan S Zhang. Real Money Investors and Sovereign Bond Yields, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

Experience from the global financial crisis suggests that countries’ borrowing costs are not solely determined by macro and fiscal fundamentals. Factors such as ownership structures of government securities, among others, also play a significant role. This paper investigates the effect of “real money investors”—domestic nonbanks and national and foreign central banks—on bond yields for a sample of 45 advanced and emerging market economies. The results show that, while bond yields rise with the debt to GDP ratio, this increase is partly offset if this debt falls in the hands of real money investors. Nonetheless, for some countries there is the risk that such ownership structure could change over the long run, which would impose upward pressure on borrowing costs, especially where fiscal positions are weak.

Subject: Bond yields, Financial institutions, Financial services, Foreign banks, Public debt, Sovereign bonds, Yield curve

Keywords: Advanced Market Economies, Asia and Pacific, Bond yield, Bond yields, Debt, ECB securities market program holding, Emerging Market Economies, Foreign banks, Global, Government Bonds, Holding, Investor, Investor Base, Investor holding, Money, Money investor, Nonbank holding, North America, Public Debt, Sovereign bonds, WP, Yield curve

Publication Details

Pages:

24
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2013/254
Stock No:

WPIEA2013254
ISBN:

9781475548617
ISSN:

1018-5941

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