01885cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014231 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484302859 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ebeke, Christian. Emerging Market Local Currency Bond Yields and Foreign Holdings in the Post-Lehman Period : a Fortune or Misfortune? / Christian Ebeke, Yinqiu Lu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The paper shows that foreign holdings of local currency government bonds in emerging market countries (EMs) have reduced bond yields but have somewhat increased yield volatility in the post-Lehman period. Econometric analyses conducted from a sample of 12 EMs demonstrate that these results are robust and causal. We use an identification strategy exploiting the geography-based measure of EMs financial remoteness vis-a-vis major offshore financial centers as an instrumental variable for the foreign holdings variable.The results also show that, in countries with weak fiscal and external positions, foreign holdings are greatly associated with increased yield volatility. A case study using Poland data elaborates on the cross country findings. Mode of access: Internet Lu, Yinqiu. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/029 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2014/029/001.2014.issue-029-en.xml IMF e-Library