Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies

September 30, 2015

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Julian T Chow. Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 4, 2024

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Summary

In recent years, firms in emerging market countries have increased borrowing, particularly in foreign currency, owing to easy access to global capital markets, prolonged low interest rates and good investment opportunities. This paper discusses the trends in emerging market corporate debt and leverage, and illustrates how those firms are vulnerable to interest rate, exchange rate and earnings shocks. The results of a stress test show that while corporate sector risk remains moderate in most emerging economies, a combination of macroeconomic and financial shocks could significantly erode firms’ ability to service debt and lead to higher debt at risk, especially in countries with high shares of foreign currency debt and low natural hedges.

Subject: Corporate sector, Currencies, Economic sectors, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial markets, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial statements, Money, Public financial management (PFM), Stress testing

Keywords: Balance sheet, Balance sheet information, Banking sector, Corporate, Corporate sector, Currencies, Debt at risk, Debt index, Debt issuance, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Emerging market, Emerging market corporate, Emerging market corporate debt, Expenses of the corporate, Financial statements, Foreign currency issuance, Global, Interest expense, Leverage, Liabilities structure, On-balance sheet derivatives obligation, Stress testing, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

18
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2015/216
Stock No:

WPIEA2015216
ISBN:

9781513502717
ISSN:

1018-5941

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