Interest Rates and Government Debt: Are the Linkages Global Rather Than National?

January 1, 1991

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Mark Scott Lutz, and Vito Tanzi. Interest Rates and Government Debt: Are the Linkages Global Rather Than National?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

Given the increasing integration of financial markets, a better understanding of the effects of fiscal deficits and debt on real interest rates might be obtained by taking a global, rather than a national, perspective. The paper constructs aggregate flow and stock data (including GDP, fiscal deficits, government debt, and saving rates) and examines the empirical evidence of the global effect of fiscal policies on interest rates. The sensitivity of the results to the choice of deficit (central or general government), public debt (gross or net), and saving (gross or net), as well as the level and method of aggregation, is also examined.

Subject: Exchange rates, Expenditure, External debt, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Interest payments, Public debt, Real interest rates

Keywords: Debt ratio, Debt variable, Deficit ratio, Deficit variable, Exchange rates, GDP comparison, GDP ratio, Global, GNP ratio, Interest payments, Interest rate equation, Real interest rate variable, Real interest rates, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

46
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1991/006
Stock No:

WPIEA0061991
ISBN:

9781451842227
ISSN:

1018-5941

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