Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Olijslagers, Stan; Vette, Nander de - 2020
Interest rates on public debt have for several years now fallen short of GDP growth rates in much of the Western world …. In his presidential address to the AEA Blanchard argued that this implies that there are no fiscal costs to high debt … debt. We test various explanations for the gap between these two and derive the fiscal adjustment necessary to eliminate it …