Is Inflation Effective for Liquidating Short-Term Nominal Debt?

The possibility of reducing the real value of domestic non-indexed government debt through inflation is studied. A central result is that this kind of debt liquidation is possible even though prices are sticky and government bonds are short term. A policy implication is that short bond maturities ar...

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Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1989.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1989/002
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF