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Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

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  • Wenxin Du
  • Jesse Schreger

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We provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the currency composition of sovereign and corporate external borrowing by emerging markets from 2003 to 2017. We show that a higher reliance on foreign currency debt by the corporate sector is associated with higher sovereign default risk. We introduce local currency sovereign debt and private sector currency mismatch into a standard sovereign debt model to examine how the currency composition of corporate borrowing affects the sovereign’s incentive to inflate or default. A calibration of the model generates the empirical patterns of sovereign credit risk.

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  • Wenxin Du & Jesse Schreger, 2022. "Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 35(10), pages 4587-4629.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rfinst:v:35:y:2022:i:10:p:4587-4629.
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    JEL classification:

    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics

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