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Title
Spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa's sovereign eurobond yields
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Abstract
This study investigates the possibility of spillovers among Sub-Saharan African (SSA) eurobonds from January 2015 to June 2017 using secondary market yields. Our results indicate significant contagion effects among these bonds, effects that prove sensitive to major economic events and news announcements. They also suggest that less resilient economies transmit more to and receive less spillovers from their peers. SSA eurobond issuers can therefore increase their influence over the performance of their securities on secondary markets by mitigating their vulnerability to these effects. Besides strong macroeconomic fundamentals, an improvement in transparency and information disclosure is required in order to curb the asymmetry of information underlying investors behavior-based spillovers and contagion, which supports to a certain extent the market discipline hypothesis in the case of SSA eurobonds.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Emerging markets finance & trade. - Armonk, N.Y.
Publication
Armonk, N.Y. : 2020
ISSN
1540-496X [print]
1558-0938 [online]
DOI
10.1080/1540496X.2019.1575724
Volume/pages
56 :15 (2020) , p. 3746-3762
ISI
000598557300015
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Last edited 06.01.2025
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