The paper presents a comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteen German states (L¨ander) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of a capital market comparable in size to funds raised in the German fixed income market for corporations. The quantitative analysis reveals...

This note looks at US$ and DM/Euro denominated government bond spreads relative to US and German benchmark bonds before and after the start of the current financial crisis. The study finds, first, that bond yield spreads before and during the crisis can largely be explained on the basis of...

We study how local governments’ debt financing decisions relate to the term structure of interest rates. Using a community welfare maximization framework, we derive the link between interest rates and the adjustable-rate share of borrowing by local governments. We construct a novel database of...

This paper develops a framework for measuring digital services in the face of ongoing innovations in the delivery of content to consumers. We capture what Brynjolfsson and Saunders (2009) call "free goods" as the capital services generated by connected consumers' stocks of IT digital goods; this...

The paper presents a comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteen German states (L¨ander) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of a capital market comparable in size to funds raised in the German fixed income market for corporations. The quantitative analysis reveals...

We study how local governments’ debt financing decisions relate to the term structure of interest rates. Using a novel database of loans taken out by local governments in England, we find that the yield spread is the main determinant of the local governments’ adjustable-rate loan share. Our...

This paper focuses on risk premiums paid by central governments in Europe and sub-national governments in Germany, Spain, and Canada. With regard to the European governments, we are interested in how these premiums were affected by the introduction of the euro. Using data for bond yield spreads...

Using a half century of data, this empirical study adopts a simple loanable funds to investigate the impact of the budget deficits on the ex post real interest rate yield on high grade municipal bonds in the U.S. Autoregressive 2SLS estimates for the 1960-2012 study period find that the ex post...

This paper demonstrates the appropriate way in which to translate a tax-free interest rate yield into an equivalent taxable interest yield when there is not only a federal income tax to account for but also a state income tax as well. The results shown indicate the importance of allowing for...

The paper presents a new and comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteen German federal states (Länder) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of a capital market comparable in size to the combined corporate bond and commercial paper market in Germany. The quantitative...