A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...

We investigate the macroeconomic determinants of corporate spreads using a no-arbitrage technique. Structural shocks are identified by a New-Keynesian model. Treasury bonds are priced in an affine model with time-varying risk premia. Corporate bonds are priced in a reduced-form credit risk model...

Using a rich sample of Canadian government securities auctions, we estimate the structural parameters of a share-auction model accounting for asymmetries across bidders. We find little evidence of asymmetries between participants at Canadian government nominal bond auctions. A counter-factual...

In den EU-Mitgliedstaaten hat die öffentliche Verschuldung eine hohe Bedeutung. Demgegenüber schenkte die Forschung in der Vergangenheit den Wirkungen der Laufzeit und Struktur der Staatsschuld nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit. In diesem Buch werden fiskalische und gesamtwirtschaftliche Ziele des...