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Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set

By Anastasia Guscina, Olivier D Jeanne

April 1, 2006

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Anastasia Guscina, and Olivier D Jeanne. Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, currency composition and indexation. The paper presents stylized facts on debt structures and preliminary evidence on their determinants. We observe substantial crosscountry variation in the structure of domestic debt and find it to be associated with countries' record of monetary stability.

Subject: Currencies, Domestic debt, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Inflation, Public debt

Keywords: Debt, Debt structures, DLTF, DLTF debt, Fixed interest rate, Share, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    31

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2006/098

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2006098

  • ISBN:

    9781451863581

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941