Format:
Online-Ressource (18 S.)
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graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9781513502717
,
1513502719
Series Statement:
IMF working paper 15/216
Content:
In recent years, firms in emerging market countries have increased borrowing, particularly in foreign currency, owing to easy access to global capital markets, prolonged low interest rates and good investment opportunities. This paper discusses the trends in emerging market corporate debt and leverage, and illustrates how those firms are vulnerable to interest rate, exchange rate and earnings shocks. The results of a stress test show that while corporate sector risk remains moderate in most emerging economies, a combination of macroeconomic and financial shocks could significantly erode firms’ ability to service debt and lead to higher debt at risk, especially in countries with high shares of foreign currency debt and low natural hedges
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chow, Julian Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015 ISBN 9781513502717
Language:
English
Keywords:
Arbeitspapier
;
Graue Literatur
DOI:
10.5089/9781513502717.001
