Bonds or Loans? The Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Bibliographic Data

ID9709961
AuthorsGalina Hale (0000-0002-5604-9730, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume117
Issue516
Pages196-215
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02007.x
OpenAlexW1992314884
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

The costs of debt crises are not invariant to the foreign debt instrument composition: bank loans or bonds. The lending boom of the 1990s witnessed considerable variation over time and across countries in the debt instrument used by emerging market (EM) borrowers. This article tests how macroeconomic fundamentals affect the composition of international debt instruments used by EM borrowers. Analysis of micro-level data using an ordered probability model shows that macroeconomic fundamentals explain a significant share of variation in the ratio of bonds to loans for private borrowers, but not for the sovereigns. Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007

Bond · Boom · Debt · Economics · External debt · Financial system · Interest rate · Macroeconomics · Monetary economics · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · Finance · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies

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