Year: 1984
Type: report
Abstract: The effect on coinmerqial banks of exposure to large amounts of developing country debt has been a topic of increasing concern In recent years.Fear of default on the part of t1e debtor countries has led to fears for the solvency of the creditor banks since in nany cases the total of outstanding exposure to risky debtors exceeds the entire capital base of the banks involved.The paper presents a first effort towards measuring the effects of LDC debt exposure on the market value of large comniercial value banks in the United States.Our results indicate that exposure to developing country debt has exerted a measurable and significant negative effect on the ratio of market to book value for these banks.
DOI: 10.3386/w1470
Authors: Steven Kyle, Jeffrey Sachs
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1481837130