Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. It compiles a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91...

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Main Authors: Meyer, Josefin, Reinhart, Carmen M., Trebesch, Christoph
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/243451642707009657/Sovereign-Bonds-since-Waterloo
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36877