Author/Editor: Garry J Schinasi, T Todd Smith, Charles Frederick Kramer.

Release Date:May, 2001

Recent improvements in fiscal positions in advanced countries have sharply curtailed the issuance of government securities and created the possibility that government securities could disappear in more...

Author/Editor: T Todd Smith.

Release Date:July, 1995

This paper surveys markets for corporate debt securities in the major industrial countries and the international markets. The discussion includes a comparison of the sizes of the markets for various more...

Author/Editor: Charles Frederick Kramer, T Todd Smith.

Release Date:July, 1995

This paper argues that recent movements in closed-end emerging markets funds present a strong challenge to the leading explanations of the behavior of closed-end country fund prices. In particular, more...