Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57668 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Citation: 
[Journal:] Economic Review [ISSN:] 0732-1813 [Volume:] 93 [Publisher:] Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta [Place:] Atlanta, GA [Year:] 2008
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
During the past fifteen years, financial markets in Latin America have experienced a major transformation. This process and its effects on the nature of risks and policy challenges in Latin America were the focus of a May 2007 conference in Mexico City sponsored by the Representative Office for the Americas of the Bank for International Settlements and the Americas Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. This article summarizes the papers presented at the conference as well as the discussions among participants from central banks, finance ministries, multilateral institutions, academia, and the private sector. In the first conference session, participants examined the shift from crossborder financing toward domestic financing, which has allowed domestic capital markets to expand and become deeper, more diversified, and less dependent on bank financing. The development of domestic bond markets and the resulting policy challenges were the focus of two conference sessions. Issues discussed included the benefits for sovereigns of issuing in local currency, the pros and cons of doing so in domestic vis-à-vis international markets, the criteria for determining whether to issue domestically or cross-border, the status of private markets, the role of structured finance, and whether developing these markets remains a policy objective for de-dollarizing the region's economies. In the final sessions, participants debated the implications that new financial markets have for monetary policysuch as markets' effect on policy transmission and the authorities' role in developing these marketsand for financial stability.
Subjects: 
domestic capital markets
bond markets
cross-border financing
monetary transmission mechanism
debt financing
debt management
JEL: 
E44
E52
F34
G32
H63
O54
Document Type: 
Article

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