Government debt in emerging market countries
Subtitle: a new data set
By: prepared by Olivier Jeanne and Anastasia Guscina.
Contributors: Guscina, Anastasia.; International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Series: IMF working paper -- WP/06/98
Publisher: International Monetary Fund, Research Dept.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Debts, Public -- Econometric models.
Description: 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 cross-country variation in the structure of domestic debt and find it to be associated with countries' record of monetary stability.
Notes: "April 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-29).

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