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Bank loans and public debt are competing funding sources for firms without barriers to public debt markets. With firms … seeking the least costly funding and investors in both public debt markets and bank loan markets seeking the highest return … prevail. However, there are two bodies of literature suggesting that loan rates and public debt rates for the same firm might …
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Using data on U.S. and Japanese government debt, we calibrate a version of Weil's (1989) model and study the international and intergenerational consequences of recent fiscal policy. Assuming debt/GDP ratios stabilize at current levels, the model implies: (1) the world real interest rate rises...
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The government increased payments to individuals without reducing spending elsewhere in the budget.
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