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Revisiting financial repression in EMs

The recent rise in EM sovereign bond yields will, if sustained, make public debt problems in some countries even worse. Those with large local currency debts may ultimately turn to financial repression policies, which might improve debt dynamics but at the cost of higher inflation and/or slower growth.

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