Developing Bond Markets for Sustainable Growth of East Asia

Though corporate bond markets can play important roles for East Asia's sustainable growth, it is very difficult to build a well-functioning corporate bond market. One of the reasons for the difficulty is that the hurdles to be overcome are closely related each other, resulting in a chicken or egg problem. This paper shows that the chicken or egg problem may come from externalities in corporate bond markets and analyzes the interaction of the externalities: dynamic externality and static network externality. Some policy implications are drawn from the results.