The role of movements in real rates in explaining the relationship between long and short-term interest rates is explored using a model of optimal government debt management.

This paper proposes a signaling model of fiscal stabilizations that offers a new perspective on why governments deviate from optimal tax smoothing. In our model, dependable -but not fully credible- governments have an incentive to tighten the fiscal regime when the signaling effect on credit...

The paper provides an empirical assessment of the market risk exposure of several portfolios representative of real life investment positions. We employ the notion of value at risk made popular by the recent debate on capital budgeting policies of financial intermediaries and by the new capital...

This paper proposes a signaling model of fiscal stabilizations that offers a new perspective on why governments deviate from optimal tax smoothing. In our model, dependable - but not fully credible - governments have an incentive to tighten the fiscal regime when the signaling effect on credit...