NDLI: An Empirical Assessment of Sovereign Country Risk in the Black Sea Region

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Author	Gavras, Pas Vogiazas, Sofoklis D. Koura, Maria
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Country risk is recognized as a key factor considered prior to undertaking cross-border economic activity such as an investment or a financial transaction. When the level of country risk is deemed low, commercial and other risks play a more important role in the assessment of the advisability to undertake a cross-border activity. In other cases, country risk levels are significant and may play a decisive role in the assessment of the cross-border activity. By its nature, country risk depends upon perceptions, and as a result both objective measurable factors and subjective issues need to be considered. This study investigates the factors that determine country risk as signalled by a commonly used proxy, the sovereign credit ratings assigned by the major rating agencies. To this end, panel data analysis has been used and applied to three heterogeneous country sub-groups, the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries, the EU-15, and the Central Europe and Baltic countries, for the period 2004–2013. The results generated suggest that three sets of variables: gross domestic product per capita, debt metrics, and institutional factors, play an instrumental role in explaining country risk across all the sub-groups. However, the individual results for each sub-group provide evidence that sovereign rating agencies focus on particular economic facets of each, and hence, take into account idiosyncratic aspects, structural as well as regional. Therefore, the study also examines those indicators that matter most or have a ‘specific gravity’ in determining sovereign ratings in each country-group, with a particular focus on the BSEC countries.
Starting Page	77
Ending Page	93
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10830898
Journal	International Advances in Economic Research
Volume Number	22
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573966X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-01-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Country risk Sovereign credit ratings Black Sea region Economics Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics International Economics Microeconomics Economic Growth
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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