Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending: A Test

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Giovanni Dell'Ariccia

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Isabel Schnabel

University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Bruegel; CEPR

Date Written: October 2002

Abstract

We test for the existence of a moral hazard effect attributable to official crisis lending by analyzing the evolution of sovereign bond spreads in emerging markets before and after the Russian crisis. The nonbailout of Russia in August 1998 is interpreted as an event that decreased the perceived probability of future crisis lending to emerging markets. In the presence of moral hazard, such an event should raise not only the level of spreads, but also the sensitivity with which spreads reflect fundamentals as well as their cross-country dispersion. We find strong evidence for all three effects.

Keywords: Moral hazard, international lending, financial crises, sovereign debt

JEL Classification: F34, C2

Suggested Citation

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni and Schnabel, Isabel and Zettelmeyer, Jeromin, Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending: A Test (October 2002). IMF Working Paper No. 02/181, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=880258

Giovanni Dell'Ariccia (Contact Author)

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Isabel Schnabel

University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics ( email )

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Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Bruegel

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Belgium

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CEPR ( email )

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