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Title:	Three essays in asset pricing of sovereign fixed income instruments
Authors:	Piga, Gustavo Kucuk, Ugur Namik
Keywords:	emerging market sovereign bonds sovereign bond market credit risk credit default swaps basis liquidity emerging market equity markets local currency bonds financial markets emerging markets bond portfolio excess returns
Issue Date:	12-Jul-2010
Abstract:	Non-default Component of Sovereign Emerging Market Yield Spreads and its Determinants: Evidence from Credit Default Swap Market. In this paper, I show that a sizable component of emerging market sovereign yield spreads is due to factors other than default risk such as liquidity. I estimate the non-default component of the yield spreads as the basis between the actual credit default swap (CDS) premium and the hypothetical CDS premium implied by emerging market bond yields. On average, the basis is large and positive for speculative grade bonds and slightly negative for investment grade bonds. Large positive basis for speculative grade bonds support the existence of speculation in the CDS market when the underling’s credit quality is bad. I study the effects of bond liquidity, liquidity in the CDS market, equity market performance and macroeconomic variables on the non-default component of the emerging market yield spreads. I show that bond liquidity has...
Description:	21. ciclo
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2108/1322
Appears in Collections:	Tesi di dottorato in economia

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