Local Currency Bond Markets - A Diagnostic Framework
Local Currency Bond Markets - A Diagnostic Framework

Author: World Bank

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2013-07-09

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1498341527

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In November 2011, the G-20 endorsed an action plan to support the development of local currency bond markets (LCBM). International institutions—the IMF, the World Bank, the EBRD, and the OECD—were asked to draw on their experience to develop a diagnostic framework (DF) to identify general preconditions, key components, and constraints for successful LCBM development. The objective is to provide a tool for analyzing the state of development and efficiency of local currency bond markets. The application of the DF is expected to be flexible, bearing in mind that the potential for LCBM development depends on economic size, financing needs, and stage of economic development.

Guidance Note For Developing Government Local Currency Bond Markets
Guidance Note For Developing Government Local Currency Bond Markets

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-03-12

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1513573926

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This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative, (FIRST).The aim of the project was to deliver a report that provides emerging market and developing economies with guidance and a roadmap in developing their local currency bond markets (LCBMs). This note will also inform technical assistance missions in advising authorities on the formulation of policies to deepen LCBMs.

Exploring the Role of Foreign Investors in Russia's Local Currency Government Bond (OFZ) Market
Exploring the Role of Foreign Investors in Russia's Local Currency Government Bond (OFZ) Market

Author: Yinqiu Lu

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1475577583

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Local currency government bonds (OFZ bonds) are an important fixed-income instrument in Russia’s financial markets. In this paper, based on granular data, we explore the development of the OFZ bond market with a focus on foreign investors. As this fixed-income market has experienced a liberalization of the domestic trading and settlement infrastructure, and weathered several episodes of market stresses since the 2008–09 global financial crisis, the role of foreign investors can be observed along with these events. What we have found is that foreign investors had influenced the market before they became an important player and since then they have contributed to the development of the market while not necessarily destabilizing it in episodes of shocks.

Developing Government Bond Markets: A Handbook
Developing Government Bond Markets: A Handbook

Author:

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2001-09-21

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780821349557

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This handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for both senior policymakers—those responsible for the development of government bond markets in their own countries—and all individuals responsible for guiding the market development process at the operational level—those who have a substantial need to understand the policy issues involved.

Good Practices for Developing a Local Currency Bond Market
Good Practices for Developing a Local Currency Bond Market

Author: Asian Development Bank

Publisher: Asian Development Bank

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9292616110

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Local currency bond markets in ASEAN+3 play an important role in diversifying financial intermediary channels and mitigating the impacts of financial crises. They also have the potential to help mobilize developing Asia's significant savings to meet the region's enormous infrastructure investment needs. Drawing extensively on knowledge generated by the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum, the publication looks at the essential building blocks and the enabling environment for these markets, as well as the roles of government, relevant authorities, and market participants.

Bond Markets in Africa
Bond Markets in Africa

Author: Mr.Yibin Mu

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2013-01-14

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1475535848

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African bond markets have been steadily growing in recent years, but nonetheless remain undeveloped. African countries would benefit from greater access to financing and deeper financial markets. This paper compiles a unique set of data on corporate bond markets in Africa. It then applies an econometric model to analyze the key determinants of African government securities market and corporate bond market capitalization. Government securities market capitalization is directly related to better institutions and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to the fiscal balance, higher interest rate spreads, exchange rate volatility, and current and capital account openness. Corporate bond market capitalization is directly linked to economic size, the level of development of the economy and financial markets, better institutions, and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to higher interest rate spreads and current account openness. Policy implications follow.

The Development of Local Capital Markets
The Development of Local Capital Markets

Author: Mr.Luc Laeven

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1498372201

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Capital markets can improve risk sharing and the efficiency with which capital is allocated to the real economy, boosting economic growth and welfare. However, despite these potential benefits, not all countries have well developed capital markets. Moreover, government-led initiatives to develop local capital markets have had mixed success. This paper reviews the literature on the benefits and costs of developing local capital markets, and describes the challenges faced in the development of such markets. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations emerging from this literature.

A Primer on Managing Sovereign Debt-Portfolio Risks
A Primer on Managing Sovereign Debt-Portfolio Risks

Author: Thordur Jonasson

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1484350545

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This paper provides an overview of sovereign debt portfolio risks and discusses various liability management operations (LMOs) and instruments used by public debt managers to mitigate these risks. Debt management strategies analyzed in the context of helping reach debt portfolio targets and attain desired portfolio structures. Also, the paper outlines how LMOs could be integrated into a debt management strategy and serve as policy tools to reduce potential debt portfolio vulnerabilities. Further, the paper presents operational issues faced by debt managers, including the need to develop a risk management framework, interactions of debt management with fiscal policy, monetary policy, and financial stability, as well as efficient government bond markets.

Developing the Domestic Government Debt Market
Developing the Domestic Government Debt Market

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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Domestic government debt markets play a critical role in managing public debt effectively and reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. Many aspects of debt markets -- money, primary, and secondary markets; a diversified investor base; and sound securities custody and settlement systems and regulation interact in complex ways and are affected by previous policies and developments. This book draws insights from 12 developing and emerging market country case studies on moving from country diagnostics to reform implementation.

Money
Money

Author: Michel Aglietta

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1786634449

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The major French economist offers a new theory of money As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, with little to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke what would happen if the central bank did not carry out its rescue package, he replied, “If we don’t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday.” What saved finance, and the Western economy, was fiscal and monetary stimulus – an influx of money, created ad hoc. It was a strategy that raised questions about the unexamined nature of money itself, an object suddenly revealed as something other than a neutral signifier of value. Through its grip on finance and the debt system, money confers sovereign power on the economy. If confidence in money is not maintained, crises follow. Looking over the last 5,000 years, Michel Aglietta explores the development of money and its close connection to sovereign power. This book employs the tools of anthropology, history and political economy in order to analyse how political structures and monetary systems have transformed one another. We can thus grasp the different eras of monetary regulation and the crises capitalism has endured throughout its history.