Predicting Discounts of Secondary Market Sovereign Debts

This paper assesses the Institutional Investor Country Risk Rating (IICR) to analyze whether secondary market prices are reliable indicators of debt values. It starts with the conviction that the rating scores are reasonable measure of banker’s perceptions of the country’s creditworthiness. Regression results indicate illiquidity of the secondary market.risk

Predicting Discounts of Secondary Market Sovereign Debts

This paper assesses the Institutional Investor Country Risk Rating (IICR) to analyze whether secondary market prices are reliable indicators of debt values. It starts with the conviction that the rating scores are reasonable measure of banker’s perceptions of the country’s creditworthiness. Regression results indicate illiquidity of the secondary market.risk