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Governments face a trade-off between insuring bondholders and taxpayers. If the government fully insures bondholders by manufacturing risk-free zero-beta debt, then it cannot also insure taxpayers against permanent macroeconomic shocks over long horizons. Instead, taxpayers will pay more in...
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This paper estimates a nonlinear Threshold-VAR to investigate if a Keynesian liquidity trap due to a speculative motive … of the liquidity effect after an unexpected increase in M2 in the 1921-1940 period. This evidence, which is consistent … with the Keynesian view on a liquidity trap, is shown to be state contingent. In particular, it emerges only when a …
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In the conventional literature related to investment decisions, less attention has been paid to the length of maturity … cost at the end of the borrowing period. In this study, the effects of selecting different maturity years on firms … suggest that (1) ceteris paribus an optimum maturity year appears to exist that maximises the NVP, and (2) the change of …
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theory shows that the effect of debt cuts on fiscal compliance depends on two effects, the direction of which determines the …
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inflation dynamics. Our results illustrate the role of the maturity of existing debt in the wake of skyrocketing debt …In this paper, we revisit the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) within the New Keynesian (NK) model. We show in … which cases the average maturity of government debt matters for the transmission of policy shocks. The central task of this …
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This paper analyzes the optimal level of public debt when taxes are used not only for funding public expenditures but also for correcting externalities from climate change. Taking into account externalities implies that the optimal policy deviates from tax smoothing. Provided cumulative marginal...
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This paper undertakes a normative investigation of the quantitative properties of optimal tax smoothing in a business cycle model with state contingent debt, capital-skill complementarity, endogenous skill formation and stochastic shocks to public consumption as well as total factor and capital...
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intermediaries' incentives for liquidity transformation are affected by the central bank's reaction to financial crisis. Anticipating … central bank's reaction to liquidity stress gives banks incentives to invest in excessive liquidity transformation, triggering … efficient outcome can be implemented by imposing ex ante liquidity requirements. …
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We argue a holdout is not a destructive investor behaviour but a rational investment decision. This investment decision is characterised by the mean-variance approach. We investigate intercreditor conflict by diverse portfolio structure. We demonstrate that at some point during the Greek (2012)...
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precedents and proposals have included austerity, haircuts and the generation of inflation. Each way has advantages and …, hyperinflation in Germany after World War I, inflation in Argentina since the 1980s, currency reform in Germany after WW II, and …
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