The Role of Global Risk Aversion in Explaining Sovereign Spreads

Alicia Garcia-Herrero () and Alvaro Ortiz
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Economía Journal, 2006, vol. Volume 7 Number 1, issue Fall 2006, 125-155

Abstract: This paper assesses empirically whether global investors´ risk aversion-and its main determinants (U.S. economic growth and the U.S. risk-free rate)-explains developments in Latin American sovereign spreads. We find that global risk aversion is significant and positively related to sovereign spreads in all Latin American countries analyzed. Furthermore, its impact is persistent over time and even increases in most countries. In addition, a rise in the U.S. long-term risk-free rate lowers sovereign spreads in all countries in the short term. However, this optimistic result, given the current juncture in which long-term rates are expected to increase, reverts very rapidly so that sovereign spreads actually rise only some months later.

Keywords: global risk aversion; sovereign spreads; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 F3 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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