Low Income Countries, Credit Rationing and Debt Relief: Bye bye international financial market?

Marc Raffinot and Baptiste Venet
Additional contact information
Baptiste Venet: LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Working Papers from HAL

Abstract: LICs have no access to international financial markets. Since the nineties, LICs have been granted debt relief by bilateral creditors andby international financing institutions, namely from 1996 on underHighly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and from 2005 onunder Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Did those debt relief initiatives send a negative message to the lenders, deterring themto lend to the LICs? For assessing this we use the concessionality rate of new financing flows as a measurement of the "distance to the market" and assess the impact of debt relief on the concessionality rate implementing a Granger causality tests using panel data, a methodology perfected by Hurlin (2004, 2005) and Hurlin and Venet (2004).We show that countries with high concessionality resources are morelikely to get debt relief, but that debt relief does not "cause" higher concessionality.

Keywords: Debt relief; Low Income countries; Causality in panels; Access to the market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban and nep-sbm
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-01489954v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-01489954v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Low Income Countries, Credit Rationing and Debt Relief: Bye bye international financial market? (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01489954

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().