The role of movements in real rates in explaining the relationship between longand short-term interest rates is explored within a model of optimal government debt management. The government's incentives to resort in the future to in ̄ation and ex post debt taxation in order to reduce the real value of its nominal liabilities have an impact on term premia and hence on the short±long spread. In pa...

This paper develops a model of optimal government debt maturity in which the government cannot issue state-contingent bonds and the government cannot commit to fiscal policy. In contrast to an environment with full commitment, there is a tradeoff between the cost of funding and the benefit of hedging. Borrowing long term provides the government with a hedging benefit since the value of outstand...

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

This paper empirically examines whether yield spreads of subordinated debt issued by UK banks are sensitive to bank risks, with a dataset that includes spreads, ratings, accounting measures of bank risks and market condition indexes in the sample period between 1997 and 2009. The results show that Moody’s and S&P traditional ratings have significant and negative impacts on spreads, and investor...

The widely used short-term debt such as overnight repos and commercial paper is regarded as one of the main sources of instability leading to the distress of many …nancial institutions during the …nancial crisis of 2007-2008. What explains the popularity of shortterm debt in …nancing asset market investments? Geanakoplos (2010) presents a dynamic model of the joint equilibrium of asset markets ...

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage of corporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity of the effective corp...

The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. This paper analyzes the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders (CFB), an association of British investors holding bonds issued by foreign governm...

This is the second of two articles that provide an overview of the money and bond markets in New Zealand. The first article was published in the September 1995 Bulletin and focused on the Crown debt market. This second article describes the non-Crown debt market, covering in some detail debt issued by financial intermediaries, large corporations, State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and local authori...