Determinants of Spread and Creditworthiness for Emerging Market Sovereign Debt: A Panel Data Study

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
295
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C33, F21, F34
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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Juan Esteban Carranza-Romero, Alejandra González-Ramírez, Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas

This study uses a panel-data framework to identify the determinants of the spread over US Treasuries of emerging market sovereign issues as well as of the creditworthiness of the issuers, where the latter is represented by the Institutional Investor’s cre