BoE paper: Bank loans versus bond finance

This Bank of England Working Paper published on 11 July develops a model to analyse the optimal choice between bank loans and bond finance for a sovereign debtor.

The author shows that if banks have better information about their borrowers compared to bondholders, only the least risky sovereigns issue bonds. But if borrowers can be 'publicly monitored' by an outside agency that disseminates the information about their creditworthiness, their choice between bank loans and bond finance is

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