Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows

60 Pages Posted: 8 Jan 2020 Last revised: 11 May 2020

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Fernando Broner

CREI; Barcelona GSE; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; CEPR

Alberto Martin

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Lorenzo Pandolfi

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Tomas Williams

George Washington University; George Washington University - Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA)

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Date Written: May 8, 2020

Abstract

We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries which are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these episodes significantly reduce government bond yields and appreciate the domestic currency, and have heterogeneous spillovers on domestic firms. Financial and government-related firms experience positive abnormal returns in the days following the announcement episodes. Instead, companies operating in tradable industries exhibit negative abnormal returns after the episodes. We find that the former expansionary effect is more pronounced in countries where the government bond yields drop more in response to the announcement, while the latter recessionary effect is larger in countries where the domestic currency appreciates more. Also, we find that firms which rely more on external financing are positively affected by these events. Our findings shed novel light on the channels through which sovereign debt inflows affect firms in recipient countries. They suggest that these inflows can contribute to reshaping the domestic economy, by increasing the importance of the non-tradable sector at the expenses of the tradable one.

Keywords: sovereign debt; capital inflows; exchange rate; government bond yields; stock prices; emerging markets

JEL Classification: F31, F32, F36, G15, G23

Suggested Citation

Broner, Fernando and Martin, Alberto and Pandolfi, Lorenzo and Williams, Tomas, Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows (May 8, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3510264 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3510264

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Alberto Martin

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) ( email )

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Lorenzo Pandolfi

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) ( email )

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Tomas Williams (Contact Author)

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