¶ … Ukrainian bond market, specifically seeking to determine the factors that are restraining its development. The Ukrainian bond market is underdeveloped, with relatively poor liquidity. Several different factors contributing to this are examined.
What we know already is that there is a low level of liquidity in the Ukrainian debt market. This serves to suppress demand for the nation's debt, and it increases the cost of borrowing because low liquidity means higher risk for buyers. We also know that the country's banking sector has also been a contributor to the slow growth of the debt markets. The main issue with the banking sector is that it is a barrier to investors to buying these bonds -- the banks should act as intermediary but does note.
What we need to find out is what other factors are contributing to the...
Some of the specific issues that might come into play are taxation, fees and charges, risk, regulatory complexity in the underwriting process, and the overall lack of size of the market for primary underwriting and secondary trading of sovereign debt products.
4. There are a number of sources for the information that we will need to gather. The Ministry of the Economy of Ukraine compiles some of the needed data, as does the Stock Market Commission of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine and possibly some international bodies such as the World Bank as well. The different rates that will be studied as the data should be available from these difference sources.
5. The data being gathered is from 2000-2010. Some of this might…
