A Risk Management Approach to Emerging Market’s Sovereign Debt Sustainability with an Application to Brazilian Data

Marcio Garcia and Roberto Rigobon

No 484, Textos para discussão from Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil)

Abstract: In this paper we study the question of debt sustainability from a risk management perspective. The debt accumulation equation for any country involves variables that are stochastic and closely intertwined. When these aspects are taken into consideration the notion of debt sustainability is expanded to studying the stochastic properties of the debt dynamics. We illustrate the methodology by studying the Brazilian case. We find that even though the debt could be sustainable in the absence of risk, there are paths in which it is clearly unsustainable. Furthermore, we show that properties of the debt dynamics are closely related to the spreads on sovereign dollar denominated debt.

Keywords: Public Debt; Debt Sustainability; Country Risk; Brazil JEL Codes: F34; F37; G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2004-04
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