Debt Maturity : Does It Matter for Fiscal Space? /

This paper examines how debt maturity affects the debt limit, defined as the maximum amount of debt a government can afford without defaulting. We develop a model where investors are risk neutral, the primary balance is stochastic but exogenous, and default occurs solely due to the government's...

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Автор: Kim, Jun
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/257
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF
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