We develop a closed economy model to study the interactions among sovereign risk premia, fiscal limits, and fiscal policy. The stochastic fiscal limits, which measure the ability and willingness of the government to service its debt, arise endogenously from a dynamic Laffer curve. The...

We develop a closed economy model in order to study the interactions among sovereign risk premia, fiscal limits and fiscal policy. Default risk premia reflect the market's expectations about the ability and willingness of the government to service its debt. The government's ability arises...

We develop a closed economy model in order to study the interactions among sovereign risk premia, fiscal limits and fiscal policy. The stochastic fiscal limit, which measures the ability and willingness of the government to service its debt, arises endogenously from dynamic Laffer Curves. The...