Government Bonds and Their Investors: What are the Facts and Do They Matter?
By Jochen R. Andritzky. Social Science Research Network, 2012
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This paper introduces a new dataset on the composition of the investor base for government securities in the G20 advanced economies and the euro area. During the last decades, investors from abroad have increased their presence in government bond markets. The financial crisis broke this trend. Domestic financial institutions allocated a larger share of government securities in their portfolios, as Japan has done since its crisis in the 1990s. Increases in the share held by institutional investors or non-residents by 10 percentage points are associated with a reduction in yields by about 25 or 40 basis points, respectively. The data show a varied lead-lag relationship between bond yields and investor holdings. Portfolio balance estimates suggest that a change in statutory or regulatory holdings of government securities to the tune of 10 percent of the outstanding stock causes expected returns to decline by 7 to 25 basis points.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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- Tracking Global Demand for Emerging Market Sovereign Debt (2014, background): “Indeed, several studies show that an increase in the share of foreign investors or real money investors in the investor base is typically associated with lower sovereign bond yields (Andritzky, 2012; Arslanalp and Poghosyan, 2014; Jaramillo and Zhang, 2013; Warnock and Warnock, 2009).”
- Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt (2012, unknown): “Among others, Andritzky (2012) compiled unconsolidated government bond investor base data for 14 advanced economies based on national sources.”