Sovereign Debt Management in Crisis in Europe and Central Asia : A Toolkit for Policy Maker
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 required most sovereign debt managers to adapt to rapidly changing market circumstances, by changing the mix of borrowing instruments and adopting techniques that minimize the impact of severe market disloca...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/17939635/europe-central-asia-sovereign-debt-management-crisis-toolkit-policy-maker http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24117 |
Summary: | The global financial crisis of 2008-2009
required most sovereign debt managers to adapt to rapidly
changing market circumstances, by changing the mix of
borrowing instruments and adopting techniques that minimize
the impact of severe market dislocations and increased risk
aversion. These actions, allied to prudent macroeconomic and
debt management policies implemented by government in the
years preceding the crises, were critical in helping
countries meet their financing needs without undue strain on
the financial markets. This toolkit draws on the approaches
taken by a range of countries and provides sovereign debt
policy makers with a rich set of potential actions to
address crisis periods. A practical illustration on the use
of some of these actions is conducted by analyzing the
measures taken by Romania, Serbia and Turkey as a response
to the recent crises. Authors draw lessons from these
experiences and examine what other measures included in the
toolkit could have been used to boost the crisis response
impact in these economies, respecting country-specific contexts. |
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