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Valuation of Interest Payment Guarantees on Developing Country Debt

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  • Eduardo Borensztein

    (International Monetary Fund)

  • George Pennacchi

    (International Monetary Fund)

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The cost of interest payment guarantees is difficult to evaluate because guarantees are a contingent obligation that become effective only if a certain condition is met (that is, the debtor fails to make a certain payment). In this paper a technique to value interest payment guarantees on developing country debt is developed and preliminary estimates are presented. Using results from option pricing theory, the market price that an interest payment guarantee would have if it were traded in financial markets is estimated from the characteristics of secondary market prices of developing country debt.

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  • Eduardo Borensztein & George Pennacchi, 1990. "Valuation of Interest Payment Guarantees on Developing Country Debt," IMF Staff Papers, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 37(4), pages 806-824, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:imfstp:v:37:y:1990:i:4:p:806-824
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    1. Claessens,Constantijn A.*Pennacchi, George, 1992. "Deriving developing country repayment capacity from the market prices of sovereign debt," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1043, The World Bank.
    2. Lim, Terence & Lo, Andrew W. & Merton, Robert C. & Scholes, Myron S., 2006. "The Derivatives Sourcebook," Foundations and Trends(R) in Finance, now publishers, vol. 1(5–6), pages 365-572, April.

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