a column by Marcos Chamon, Julian Schumacher and Christoph Trebesch for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Do investors care about the legal characteristics of sovereign debt?
Focusing on the euro area, this column compares sovereign bonds issued under domestic law to those issued under a foreign jurisdiction, which are harder to restructure in a debt crisis since they are out of reach of the borrowing country’s legislature.
This legal protection means that foreign law bonds trade at a premium (with lower yields), but only in situations of severe distress such as Greece or Portugal in 2011/2012. In the midst of a crisis, governments can borrow more cheaply by issuing in foreign law.
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