Selective Default Expectations

Olivier Accominotti, Thilo N. H. Albers and Kim Oosterlinck
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Thilo N. H. Albers: HU Berlin

No 425, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

Abstract: This paper explores how selective default expectations affect the pricing of sovereign bonds in a historical laboratory: the German default of the 1930s. We analyze yield differentials between identical government bonds traded across various creditor countries before and after bond market segmentation. We show that, when secondary debt markets are segmented, a large selective default probability can be priced in bond yield spreads. Selective default risk accounted for one third of the yield spread of German external bonds over the risk-free rate during the 1930s. Selective default expectations arose from differences in the creditor countries' economic power over the debtor.

Keywords: sovereign risk; debt default; secondary markets; creditor discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F34 G12 G15 H63 N24 N44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-12
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