EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Emerging market sovereign spreads, global financial conditions and U.S. macroeconomic news

Fatih Ozatay, Erdal Özmen and Gülbin Şahinbeyoğlu

Economic Modelling, 2009, vol. 26, issue 2, 526-531

Abstract: We investigate the impact of global financial conditions, U.S. macroeconomic news and domestic fundamentals on the evolution of EMBI spreads for a panel of 18 emerging market (EM) countries using daily data. To this end, we consider not only the conventional panel cointegration procedures but also the recent common correlated effects method to tackle cross-section dependence that may stem from common global shocks such as contagion. The results suggest that the long-run evolution of EMBI spreads depends on global financial conditions, crises contagion and domestic fundamentals proxied by sovereign ratings. The results from panel equilibrium correction models suggest that EMBI spreads respond substantially also to U.S. macroeconomic news and changes in the Federal Reserve's target interest rates. The magnitude and the sign of the effect of the U.S. news, however, crucially depend on the state of the U.S. economy, such as the presence of inflation dominance.

Keywords: Bond; spreads; Emerging; markets; Macroeconomic; news (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (40)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264-9993(08)00133-8
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Emerging Market Sovereign Spreads, Global Financial Conditions and US Macroeconomic News (2008) Downloads
Working Paper: Emerging Market Sovereign Spreads, Global Financial Conditions and U.S. Macroeconomic News (2007) Downloads
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:eee:ecmode:v:26:y:2009:i:2:p:526-531

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Modelling is currently edited by S. Hall and P. Pauly

More articles in Economic Modelling from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:26:y:2009:i:2:p:526-531