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Do Enhanced Collective Action Clauses Affect Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

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  • Kay Chung
  • Mr. Michael G. Papaioannou

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This paper analyzes the effects of including collective action clauses (CACs) and enhanced CACs in international (nondomestic law-governed) sovereign bonds on sovereigns’ borrowing costs, using secondary-market bond yield spreads. Our findings indicate that inclusion of enhanced CACs, introduced in August 2014, is associated with lower borrowing costs for both noninvestment-grade and investment-grade issuers. These results suggest that market participants do not associate the use of CACs and enhanced CACs with borrowers’ moral hazard, but instead consider their implied benefits of an orderly and efficient debt resolution process in case of restructuring.

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  • Kay Chung & Mr. Michael G. Papaioannou, 2020. "Do Enhanced Collective Action Clauses Affect Sovereign Borrowing Costs?," IMF Working Papers 2020/162, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2020/162
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    1. Giselle Datz, 2021. "Ties that bind and blur: financialization and the evolution of sovereign debt as private contract," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 571-587, December.
    2. Panizza, Ugo & Bolton, Patrick & Gulati, Mitu, 2022. "Sovereign Debt Puzzles," CEPR Discussion Papers 17742, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Chuck Fang & Julian Schumacher & Christoph Trebesch, 2021. "Restructuring Sovereign Bonds: Holdouts, Haircuts and the Effectiveness of CACs," IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 69(1), pages 155-196, March.
    4. Rosario Bustillo & Tomás A. Marinozzi, 2022. "Argentina vs Holdouts. The Complete Saga (2005-2016)," CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo. 831, Universidad del CEMA.
    5. Committeri, Marco & Alves, Inês & Arthur, Julien & De Marchi, Raffaele & Essers, Dennis & Keeney, Mary & Kosterink, Patrick & Lieber, Alexander & Martinez-Resano, José Ramon & Osińska, Joanna & Spadaf, 2021. "The IMF’s role in sovereign debt restructurings," Occasional Paper Series 262, European Central Bank.
    6. Nicoletta Layher & Eyden Samunderu, 2020. "The Impact of the Introduction of Uniform European Collective Action Clauses on European Government Bonds as a Regulatory Result of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-32, December.

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    Keywords

    WP; collective action clause; yield to maturity; enhanced CACs; sovereign bond;
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    JEL classification:

    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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