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Michael T. Gapen 0000000404811396 https://isni.org/isni/0000000404811396 International Monetary Fund

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International Capital Markets Department

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Contents

  • I. Introduction

  • II. A Practical Approach to Sovereign Risk

    • A. Defining Sovereign Distress: The Concept

    • B. Estimating the Value of Sovereign Assets

  • III. Contingent Claims Analysis of the Sovereign Balance Sheet

    • A. Consolidating the Sovereign Balance Sheet

    • B. Seniority of Consolidated Balance Sheet Liabilities

    • C. Calculating Implied Sovereign Asset Value and Volatility

  • IV. Sovereign Credit Risk Indicators

  • V. Robustness of Sovereign Credit Risk Indicators

    • A. Correlation with Market Data

    • B. Regression Analysis

  • VI. Scenario and Simulation Analysis: Hypothetical Sovereign

    • A. The Baseline

    • B. Scenario Analysis

    • C. Monte Carlo Simulations

    • D. Evaluating Policy Design

  • VII. Next Steps

    • A. A Robust Framework for Reserve Management

    • B. A Robust Framework for Debt Sustainability

  • VIII. Conclusions

  • Boxes

  • 1. From Corporate to Sovereign Risk Analysis

  • 2. Implementing the Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Figures

  • 1. Distribution of Sovereign Asset Value and the Distress Barrier

  • 2. Segregated Balance Sheets of the Government and Monetary Authority

  • 3. The Consolidated Contingent Claims Public Sector Balance Sheet

  • 4. Distance to Distress and Credit Default Swaps

  • 5. Model Credit Spread and J.P. Morgan EMBI+ Country Index

  • 6. Market Observed Spreads and Model Distance to Distress

  • 7. Monte Carlo Simulations: Hypothetical Sovereign

  • 8. Evaluation of Policy Options

  • Tables

  • 1. Spearman Rank Correlation: Sovereign Risk Indicators and Actual Data

  • 2. Regression Output: Risk-Neutral Spreads and CDS Spreads

  • 3. Regression Output: Risk-Neutral Spreads and EMBI+ Spreads

  • 4. Regression Output: Default Probability

  • 5. Example Contingent Claims Sovereign Balance Sheet Risk Indicators

  • 6. Alternative Scenarios and Contingent Claim Sovereign Balance Sheet Risk Indicators

  • Appendix

  • Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula in Contingent Claim Anaylsis

  • A. Implied Sovereign Asset Value and Volatility

  • B. Probability of Default and Sovereign Risk Premium

  • C. Extensions to Multiple Layer of Liabilities

  • References

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Measuring and Analyzing Sovereign Risk with Contingent Claims
Author:
Michael T. Gapen
,
Mr. Dale F Gray
,
Cheng Hoon Lim
, and
Ms. Yingbin Xiao