One asset, two prices: the case of the Tsarist repudiated bonds

Kim Oosterlinck and Ariane Szafarz

No 04-022.RS, Working Papers CEB from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: Prices of repudiated bonds are insightful but scarcely observed. Based on an original daily database, this paper compares the price evolution from January 6, 1916 to August 31, 1919 of a cross-listed (Paris and London) Tsarist bond repudiated by the Soviets on February 8, 1918. After its repudiation, the bond exhibits an important geographic price differential. This phenomenon is attributed to the conjunction of war conditions excluding arbitrage and specific investors' expectations regarding bailouts by the French and British governments. Furthermore, data from the pre-repudiation period show that the impossibility for arbitrage is not sufficient for driving the pricing differences.

Keywords: Bonds; repudiation; sovereign debt; Russia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F34 N24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Published by: Centre Emile Bernheim, Bruxelles

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