Staff Reports
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of International Debt Market Data
Number 1074
October 2023

JEL classification: G15

Authors: Nina Boyarchenko and Leonardo Elias

Comprehensive granular data on firms’ access to international credit markets and its determinants is instrumental to answering a wide set of questions in international macroeconomics and finance. We describe how to put together data on primary market issuance and secondary market pricing, how to track debt securities over their lifetimes on firms’ balance sheets, and how to collect data on issuers’ financial statements. We argue that choices that need to be made in collating comprehensive information on debt market activity have non-trivial consequences for the measurement of key credit market outcomes.

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AUTHOR DISCLOSURE STATEMENT(S)
Nina Boyarchenko
The author declares that she has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper. Prior to circulation, this paper was reviewed in accordance with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York review policy, available at https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/index.html.

Leonardo Elias
The author declares that he has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper. Prior to circulation, this paper was reviewed in accordance with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York review policy, available at https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/index.html.
Suggested Citation:
Boyarchenko, Nina and Leonardo Elias. 2023. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of International Debt Market Data.” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, no. 1074, October. https://doi.org/10.59576/sr.1074

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