Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts and Maturity

Rancière, Romain, , and Tamon Asonuma
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Dirk Niepelt and Romain Rancière

No 12252, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Rejecting a common assumption in the sovereign debt literature, we document that cred- itor losses ("haircuts") during sovereign restructuring episodes are asymmetric across debt instruments. We code a comprehensive dataset on instrument-specific haircuts for 28 debt restructurings with private creditors in 1999-2015 and find that haircuts on shorter-term debt are larger than those on debt of longer maturity. In a standard asset pricing model, we show that increasing short-run default risk in the run-up to a restructuring episode can explain the stylized fact. The data confirms the predicted relation between perceived default risk, bond prices, and haircuts by maturity.

Keywords: Sovereign debt; Debt restructuring; Bond pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F3 F34 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08
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