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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Yhteisötekijä: International Monetary Fund
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/073
Linkit:Full text available on IMF
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