IMF Working Papers

Risk Management of Sovereign Assets and Liabilities

By Marcel Cassard, D. F. I. Folkerts-Landau

December 1, 1997

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Summary

In an environment of sizable and volatile capital flows and integrated international capital markets, large and unhedged net external sovereign liabilities expose countries to swings in international asset prices and to potential speculative currency attacks. The paper argues that an essential step in reducing emerging market vulnerability to such external shocks is to reform the institutional arrangements governing asset and liability management policies, so as to promote a transparent, publicly accountable, and professional incentive structure.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Currencies, Debt management, External debt, Foreign currency debt, Government debt management, Money, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Benchmark portfolio, Currencies, Debt management, Debt portfolio, Foreign currency, Foreign currency debt, Global, Government debt management, Long-term debt, Middle East, North America, Portfolio manager, Reserves Management, Short-term debt, Sovereign Debt Management, U.S. dollar, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    53

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1997/166

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1661997

  • ISBN:

    9781451979619

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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