Weidmann: GDP-linked bonds an ‘avenue worth exploring’

Bundesbank president argues GDP-linked bonds could help with revision of sovereign risk weighting

Jens Weidmann
Jens Weidmann

Eurozone countries should explore the merits of sovereign bonds linked to changes in the value of their GDP, the Deutsche Bundesbank president said today (June 10). Jens Weidmann said a recent initiative by the Bank of England was pushing for the introduction of "standardised GDP-linked bonds".

Progress in regulating exposures to sovereign debt was being discussed "at both the European and the Basel level," Weidmann said. But it was "particularly urgent" in the eurozone, he told an audience in

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