Interest Costs and the Optimal Maturity Structure Of Government Debt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9703184 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yves Nosbusch (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 527 |
| Pages | 477-498 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02130.x |
| OpenAlex | W2123095146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
The government faces a trade-off between the benefits of tax smoothing and an associated increase in expected interest costs when choosing its optimal debt portfolio. The article solves for optimal policies in an incomplete markets model where the government uses two debt instruments, long-term and short-term non-contingent, nominal bonds. In this setup the basic prescription is to borrow long and invest short even though equilibrium expected interest costs are higher on long-term debt. The resulting welfare gains are close to what the government could achieve with complete markets. Significant welfare gains are possible even in the presence of leverage constraints. Copyright © 2008 The Author(s)
Debt · Economics · Government (linguistics · Government Debt · Interest rate · Law and economics · Maturity (psychological · Monetary economics · Political science · Finance · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Housing Market and Economics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |