Description:In recent years, firms in emerging market countries have increased borrowing, particularly in foreign currency, owing to easy access to global capital markets, prolonged low interest rates and good investment opportunities. This paper discusses the trends in emerging market corporate debt and leverage, and illustrates how those firms are vulnerable to interest rate, exchange rate and earnings shocks. The results of a stress test show that while corporate sector risk remains moderate in most emerging economies, a combination of macroeconomic and financial shocks could significantly erode firms' ability to service debt and lead to higher debt at risk, especially in countries with high shares of foreign currency debt and low natural hedges.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies. To get started finding Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
18
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Release
2015
ISBN
1513520490
Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies
Description: In recent years, firms in emerging market countries have increased borrowing, particularly in foreign currency, owing to easy access to global capital markets, prolonged low interest rates and good investment opportunities. This paper discusses the trends in emerging market corporate debt and leverage, and illustrates how those firms are vulnerable to interest rate, exchange rate and earnings shocks. The results of a stress test show that while corporate sector risk remains moderate in most emerging economies, a combination of macroeconomic and financial shocks could significantly erode firms' ability to service debt and lead to higher debt at risk, especially in countries with high shares of foreign currency debt and low natural hedges.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies. To get started finding Stress Testing Corporate Balance Sheets in Emerging Economies, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.