Fiscal Discipline and the Cost of Public Debt Service : Some Estimates for OECD Countries /

Is there any systematic explanation of variations in the cost of debt servicing over time and across countries? This paper examines the influence of fiscal variables on borrowing costs in a panel of OECD countries, showing that these variables have a significant role. In particular, an improvement o...

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Autor principal: Caselli, Francesco
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/055
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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