Designing GDP-Linked Bonds with Default

John Leventides, Evangelos Melas, Costas Poulios, Paraskevi Boufounou and Rena Artemis Leventides

Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik), 2021, vol. 67, issue 4, 311-335

Abstract: We develop and present a model for pricing GDP-linked bonds that takes into account both GDP fluctuations and fiscal default. The indexation is based on the size of GDP deviations from the trend and default is based on the size of sovereign debt. We consider a mapping of these instruments to normal fixed-income securities, and a bond equivalent yield is calculated as well as a default premium. We construct various indexed bond products with different coupon variations and we price them via Monte-Carlo simulations for the case of Greece. The model can be applied to other countries provided that the data are adjusted. One of the main results is that GDP-linked bonds are more conducive to debt management. In particular, replacing conventional bond instruments with carefully designed GDP-linked bonds of equivalent yield can lead to lower terminal values of debt-to-GDP ratio, provided that the macroeconomic environment is the same.

Keywords: GDP-linked bonds; plain vanilla bonds; pricing; debt management; default (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 G12 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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