New Strategies for Emerging Domestic Sovereign Bond Markets in the Global

Global Economy Journal, Vol. 7 [2007], Iss. 2, Art. 2

http://www.bepress.com/gej/vol7/iss2/2

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negative signals to investors of countries that, given their size, are considered 

important for their overall business. 

More detailed information disclosure by investments banks may therefore 

be desirable. In particular, they should release information that that would make it 

possible to show whether past recommendations are related to macroeconomic 

variables (e.g., economic activity or sovereign credit risk) and financial variables 

(e.g. bond indices performances) or, instead, whether  they are linked to their 

underwriting business and secondary emerging market activities. A tremendous 

amount of resources has been dedicated by developing countries and international 

organizations in order to improve the data release by governments (Blommestein, 

2006a). Similar efforts to limit asymmetries of information should be made by 

financial market participants, in particular via more detailed disclosure of 

underwriting activity in (emerging) bond markets (current disclosure in brokers’ 

reports is limited to the number of sell or buy recommendations). Information 

could include amounts and timing. This would make emerging markets more 

transparent and reduce the distortions of asymmetric information.  

 

 

 

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Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2007

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ANNEX A: FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND VOLATILITY

 

 

On the basis of the assumptions of the simple period model described in 

(2) and (3) in the main text, the optimisation problem for the firm at t=1 can be 

written in the following simple way:   

 

θ

λ

K

W

to

subject

RW

Y

MAX

W

≤

−

   

.

  

 

          

!

                                            (A1)