Public Debt Management and Macroeconomic Stability : An Overview
Recent research suggests that management of the public sector debt can have important effects on a country macroeconomic performance. This Public debt management and macroeconomic stability article provides an overview of the factors that the recen...
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Language: | English en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17591907/public-debt-management-macroeconomic-stability-overview http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16400 |
Summary: | Recent research suggests that management
of the public sector debt can have important effects on a
country macroeconomic performance. This Public debt
management and macroeconomic stability article provides an
overview of the factors that the recent literature has
identified as important in determining the optimal
composition of the public debt. Based on this analysis, it
attempts to establish general guidelines for public debt
management in emerging economies. To retain market access
and promote domestic financial market development,
governments should generally finance themselves at market
rates using a wide variety of securities. Beyond this
general principle, the optimal composition of the public
debt involves a tradeoff between enhancing the government
anti-inflationary credibility and reducing the vulnerability
of its budget to macroeconomic shocks. Consequently, the
optimal composition of the debt depends on a country
circumstances. Debt should be heavily weighted toward
long-term nominal securities for governments that have
anti-inflationary credibility and toward long-term indexed
debt for those that do not. |
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