Enhancing the BIS government bond statistics

Bilyana Bogdanova, Tracy Chan, Kristina Micic and Goetz von Peter

BIS Quarterly Review, 2021

Abstract: This statistical feature presents a new data set on long-term debt securities issued by central and general governments in domestic and foreign currencies. It combines national aggregates with data on international issuance and BIS estimates, for improved coverage across all markets of issue. The annual series cover 54 countries, including 28 advanced economies and 26 emerging market economies (EMEs) from the early 2000s in most cases. These series reveal that the issuance of government bonds accelerated over the past decade and surged with the onset of the pandemic in 2020. With major EMEs increasingly tapping bond markets in their domestic currency, the foreign currency share in EME government bonds has continued to decline.

JEL-codes: G15 H63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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