The Greek Public Debt Problem

Sustainability of Public Debt

On the Determination of the Public Debt

ing for convenience from price-level changes, suppose now that the current rate of return on the one-period government debt, r, differs from that applicable in the previous period, r(1. It is assumed that anticipated rates of return for future periods are still equal to the current rate, r. In the case of the one-period debt that is being considered, the government's budget condition of equatio...

The Corporate Choice between Public Debt, Bank Loans, Traditional Private Debt Placements, and 144A Debt Issues

The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and higher information asymmetry than firms that issue traditional non-bank private debt. Further, the stud...

the problem of divine hiddenness

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Public Debt and the Price Level ∗

This paper considers whether monetary and fiscal policy may sensibly be formulated independently of one another, and argues that the reasons for the two to be interconnected go well beyond the familiar but unappealing possibility of using seignorage as a source of revenue for the government. Particular attention is given to the effects of fiscal policy upon the price level through the wealth ef...