We analyze public debt sustainability in Serbia between 2004Q3 and 2014Q3. The results of our analysis are: i) public debt to GDP ratio is on unsustainable path, according to the results of unit root tests; ii) the response of primary fiscal balance to public debt accumulation is insufficient to...

This paper illustrates how a parsimonious macro-finance model can be exploited to investigate the frequency-domain properties of debt service implied by various financing strategies. This original approach is valuable to public debt managers seeking to assess the fiscal-hedging properties of the...

This paper shows how public debt repurchases can be used to reduce the costs of debt service, under the hypothesis of asymmetry of information between the government and the private sector. At the beginning of a fiscal stabilisation, for example, a government typically does not enjoy full...

The paper presents the results of a reconstruction of the Italian public debt series since national unification. Computations use today's statistical methodology to obtain a database consistent with the national accounts. The reference sector is general government, not the state sector, as in...

The world economy has been struck by Covid-19 the same way people are struck by a lightning, fast and without warning, leaving nations out to dry on little to no reserves on their crucial supply side. Consequently, over the past year, economies shrunk, production drastically diminished, and...

Die Target-Forderungen der Deutschen Bundesbank wiesen zwischen Anfang des Jahres 2009 und Anfang des Jahres 2013 ein explosives Verhalten auf. Der Beitrag identifiziert die explosiven Phasen der deutschen Target-Forderungen und diskutiert, welche Ereignisse zur Explosion der deutschen...

How are political events reflected in financial asset prices? Break points in sovereign debt prices are analyzed for Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Belgium during 1930-1948, using unique data from the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Unlike in countries involved in WWII, this market was...

Nicole Storp und Tobias Kordsmeyer, Universität Göttingen, beschäftigen sich mit der dynamischen Entwicklung von Target-Salden der Deutschen Bundesbank. Im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 1999 bis 31. Dezember 2018 stellen die Autoren drei starke Anstiege in den Target-Forderungen der Deutschen...

Die Target-Forderungen der Deutschen Bundesbank wiesen zwischen Anfang des Jahres 2009 und Anfang des Jahres 2013 ein explosives Verhalten auf. Der Beitrag identifiziert die explosiven Phasen der deutschen Target-Forderungen und diskutiert, welche Ereignisse zur Explosion der deutschen...

How are political events reflected in financial asset prices? Break points in sovereign debt prices are analyzed for Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Belgium during 1930-1948, using unique data from the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Unlike in countries involved in WWII, this market was...