Abstract :
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2016.10.005 Byline: Weneyam Hippolyte Balima, Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea Abstract: * Inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves sovereign debt risk in emerging countries. * This favorable effect is sensitive to several structural characteristics. * The measure of sovereign risk and the IT form equally influence the effect of IT adoption. * IT can improve emerging market economies' access to international financial markets.