Credibility and Nominal Debt : Exploring the Role of Maturity in Managing Inflation.

This paper focuses on the role of debt maturity in managing the government's incentives to use opportunistic inflation to reduce the ex post real value of its nominal liabilities. The maturity structure of government debt is shown to be a powerful instrument to affect the time profile of the in...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/073
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF