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The coronavirus-induced pandemic depresses economic activity and severely taxes government budgets around the world.Without external support, emerging economies’ ability to succeed in this crisis will primarily feature access and borrowing in national government bond markets.and the Mexican government’s bond threat premiums the pandemic offers a review of the delight of a giant emerging economy.Mexico’s threat premiums are more than one percentage point above expected levels, indicating tighter financing situations for the Mexican government.
A recent study warned that the upcoming countries would likely see a cascade of sovereign defaults as they struggle with the physical care and economic benefits of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) (Gourinchas and Hsieh 2020).through the unprecedented plans of complex economies to increase government borrowing, some of which are likely to be financed through the budget of emerging market economies.As a result, capital can also leave emerging economies either when foreigners withdraw cash to finance their domestic desires and domestic investors are looking for assets in complex economies, so it is vital that public policies assess the extent to which emerging economies will be able to increase the budget needed for their own reaction to COVID-19 through national government bond markets.they cannot cope with a tightening of investment or a “sudden closure,” which have traditionally proved very costly for the ies economy (Rothenberg and Warnock 2011).
In this letter, we discuss the dangers associated with government bond financing in Mexico, a leading emerging economy that accounts for 10-13% of emerging market bond indexes.We stick to Christensen, Fischer and Shultz (2019) and read about the links between the percentage of Mexican government bonds held through foreigners and the liquidity premiums required through investors to maintain those bonds. Although we have only noticed a slight decrease in the external percentage since late 2019, our effects show that liquidity premiums on Mexican bonds have increased beyond what the old investigation predicts.The analysis of term premiums for Mexican bonds shows similar increases in loan prices beyond those predicted through old relationships.Since the timing of these spikes coincided with the spread of coronavirus, we interpret that our effects imply that the Mexican government’s national investment prices have risen to just over 1 percentage point for COVID-1 9 reasons.
Our study focuses on Mexico due to the old correlation between its financing prices and the credit threat and those of other emerging economies located in the markets.Moreover, with its history of currency crises, Mexico is particularly exposed to the considerations raised by Gourinchas and Hsieh (2020).However, Mexico’s reliance on oil on government financing and its ties and the U.S. border make it special among emerging economies, it is not known whether old dating will continue between capital flows to Mexico and those toward other emerging economies.the pandemic; therefore, the findings of this research would possibly not apply to other emerging market locations.
To assess the of budget into the Mexican government bond market, we use Bank of Mexico knowledge on foreign and domestic holdings of Mexican sovereign debt.This knowledge covers any adjustments in its sovereign debt holdings through domestic or foreign investors.For every one transaction, the knowledge also identifies the type of name of the Mexican government.This allows us to concentrate in particular on Mexican popular coupon bonds denominated in Mexican pesos, called bonos.
Figure 1 shows the end point of the month of bonds held through domestic and foreign nationals from January 2007 to April 2020.Since 2012, foreigners have had a higher percentage of Mexican bonds than domestic citizens; however, foreign assets have declined since February 2020, which may be only the beginning of a more widespread fall in foreign investors in this market, which raises the question: do those budget adjustments and the overall currency market turbulence caused by the coronavirus pandemic increase the Mexican government’s financing costs?so through how much?
To answer this question, we analyze the value asked of bond investors to assume a liquidity threat, i.e. the threat that they will be forced to sell bonds temporarily before adulthood at very depressed securities.
To estimate these implied liquidity premiums in bond costs, we used a popular performance curve style of Christensen, Diebold, and Rudebusch (2011), plus a liquidity threat as described in Andreasen, Christensen, and Riddell (2020).of their exclusive charge for each of the individual bonuses.This charge assumes that over time, an increasing proportion of the theoretical amount in the course of a bond will freeze in the portfolios of investors who buy and retain and are not available to trade.seeking investor behavior, this blocking effect implies that the sensitivity of a specific bond to market liquidity will vary depending on the time elapsed since the bond was issued.characteristics of age, we can identify the liquidity.
The other points in the style are general trends in the point and shape of the rate curve that would triumph in a frictionless global market with money market trade.The estimated dynamics within the style also allow us to generate short-term interest in the long term.rate expectations, which we deduct from liquidity-adjusted bond yields to produce estimates of term premiums incorporated in bond prices.
To identify the behavior of the threat premium of Mexican government bonds, usually nominal, we estimate the costs of our style bonds from January 2007 to December 2019. Figure 2 shows our implicit liquidity premium of the style, and Figure 3 shows the implied term premium of the style (full blue lines).
The figures also illustrate the old dating between series and a set of variables that explain the replenishment in bond market liquidity at the market site or in general bond threat premiums.These variables come with the percentage of external bond assets, the Mexican peso – United States.exreplacement rates in dollars, a rate of yield of sovereign bonds rather than emerging market, oil value, year-over-year replacement in the Mexican client value index, debt/GDP ratio of the Mexican government, the average buyer-seller hole in the bond market place and the one-month rate, a widely used indicator of short-term interest rates in Mexico.The falsified green lines in Figures 2 and 3 show what the old dating of these variables implies for liquidity and term bonuses in our pre-COVID sample.
The comparison of the two false lines shows that the old dating deviates from the implicit style awards, indicating a variation in those awards that our explanatory variables do not capture.However, in general, our style would possibly explain most of the variation.premiums before the pandemic.
To assess whether these premiums behaved differently in the pandemic, we used our explanatory variables since January 2020 to calculate the liquidity and term premiums that would have prevailed if the same old relationships had been maintained.The dashed green lines in Figures 2 and 3 show what ancient relationships mean for this period.Our style predicts a spike in the term premium but not in the liquidity premium.
In the last stage, the style of the yield curve is re-estimated until the end of April 2020, resulting in liquidity of the bonds driven and the term bonds illustrated by blue dot lines in Figures 2 and 3, while the regression style predicts an almost flat trajectory, the liquidity premium bonds in Figure 2 has increased considerably in recent months , expanding by 0.34% above its expected price at the end of April 2020.Warning title, however, we note that the statistical style also revealed several spikes passed in the liquidity premium of bonds for being short-lived idiosyncratic shocks.It remains to be noted whether the existing peak will fall into this category or be the beginning of a new bullish end.
The expected price of the 10-year bond term premium shown in Figure 3 has increased dramatically in recent months, according to our model, this is largely due to the sharp depreciation of the Mexican peso against the US dollar and an uptick in the yield rate of emerging market sovereign bonds , combined with the one-month rate cut.The peak is partly offset by lower oil prices, which lower term premiums in Mexico.0.73% above the expected point at the end of April 2020.
However, recent term premiums in our pattern are far from their peaks, as was the case with the global currency crisis in 2009 and the so-called tantrum in May 2013, but recent liquidity premiums have reached a higher point than before. in our pattern. Taken together, the increases in these two premiums may simply be a fear related to the investment conditions of the Mexican government. However, past episodes of high-risk bond premiums have not led to a sudden halt in capital flows to Mexico.
Overall, the foreign percentage of the Mexican government’s bond market has declined slightly, this replacement does not appear to have been a major factor in recent adjustments in the Mexican government’s borrowing rates, on the contrary, the general turmoil in the money markets caused by the pandemic, as evidenced through our set of explanatory variables , has increased the expected term premiums for Mexican bonds by more than 2 percentage points.In addition, liquidity term and bond premiums have increased by more than one percentage point above our model’s forecast grades in recent months, given the time of those peaks in March 2020, we interpret them as higher threat premiums than those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.beyond the ancient peaks.
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised considerations about the ability of emerging market site governments to borrow in national government bond market locations on moderate terms. To assess existing bond market situations in a giant emerging economy, we talk about Mexico and read about the evolution of foreign holdings in Mexican government bonds and the effect of the pandemic on its threat premiums.
Although the percentage of foreign capital in this market has declined since the beginning of the year, our research suggests that this may not be completely the recent increase in threat premiums for Mexican government bonds.Instead, our effects mean that a mix of traditional points and Threats express threat premiums for BONDS-driven bonds by the COVID-19 pandemic by more than one percentage point above what would otherwise have been anticipated, possibly implying some financing demand situations for the Mexican government.More research would be needed to calculate whether other emerging bond markets have experienced similar effects since the start of the pandemic.
Eric Fischer is a quantitative specialist in the supervision of monetary establishments and loans at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Patrick Shultz is a PhD at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The perspectives expressed in FRBSF’s economic charter do not necessarily reflect the prospects for control of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.This publication is edited by Anita Todd with the help of Karen Barnes.Permission to reprint must be received in writing.