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Title: Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies

Author(s): Benjamin Born, Gernot M�ller, Johannes Pfeifer and Susanne Wellmann

Publication Date: February 2020

Keyword(s): Average treatment effect, Business cycle, Country risk, Country spreads, financial crisis, Interest-rate shocks and Spread shocks

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance and Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in advanced economies. Since 2008, the behavior of spreads has converged across country groups, largely because it has adjusted in advanced economies. We also provide evidence on the transmission of spread shocks and find it similar across sample periods and country groups. Spread shocks have become a more important source of output fluctuations in advanced economies after 2008.

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Born, B, M�ller, G, Pfeifer, J and Wellmann, S. 2020. 'Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14392