The paper shows that immigration can create an incentive for deficit-spending among natives. If immigrants use up some given share of public funds net of debt service, a policy of running budget deficits becomes optimal. The optimal budget deficits are higher, the higher the share of net public...

Did the city-states of Genoa and Venice kick a financial revolution all the way back in the Quattrocento, much sooner than the financial revolutions of the Netherlands, England and America? To answer this question we analyze the classic revolutions in terms of three key criteria: credibility of...

This paper proposes a dynamic politico-economic theory of debt, government finance and expenditure. Agents have preferences over a private and a government-provided public good, financed through labor taxation. Subsequent generations of voters choose taxation, government expenditure and debt...

In this paper we study the determinants of sovereign debt credit ratings using rating notations from the three main international rating agencies, for the period 1995-2005. We employ panel estimation and random effects ordered probit approaches to assess the explanatory power of several...

The valuation of corporate securities and firm's optimal dividend policy are studied within a unified framwork where we explicitly model (i) endogenous low reorganization boundaries, (ii) exogenously specified bond covenants which precipitate reorganization and (iii) strategic interactions...

This paper outlines a 15-year program for implementing the 2015 Human Development targets while resolving fully the debt overhang problem for a set of 49 poor countries. The proposal requires additional contributions from 23 rich countries amounting to 0.1 of 1% of their GDP over each of the 15...

In the year 2002 Bulgaria performed unique in their dimensions for its history operations with the national external debt. In the spring two types of global obligations were emitted – for 535.5 million. EUR and for 513 million USD. During the fall in the same year the global obligations in USD...

This paper provides evidence of bounded rationality by large dealers in U.S. Treasury auctions. I argue that these dealers use a heuristic of yield-space bidding which leads to biases manifested in three ways: they submit dominated bids, i.e., those that could be improved without raising the...

En este documento se pasa revista a la situación fiscal y la fuente de sus desequilibrios. Se cotejan las necesidades de ahorro primario con las futuras cargas que representan las deudas contingentes provenientes de las garantías públicas y, principalmente, las obligaciones pensionales,...

This paper examines 1) an exploration of international interest rates, 2) investment and saving in Australia, 3) Unemployment in Market Economies.