A wide consensus has emerged on the role of debt management in reducing fiscal vulnerability by providing insurance against macroeconomic shocks to the government budget. Whether this goal is better accomplished by nominal or inflation-indexed debt, by a short or a long maturity structure,...

In 1989, the Japanese government introduced auctions for the sale of 10-year government bonds, replacing the legal cartel syndicates that had previously coordinated prices. Using this policy change as a natural experiment, this paper uses a difference-in-differences (DID) methodology to assess...

Seit Mai 2010 kauft die Europäische Zentralbank direkt Anleihen privater und öffentlicher Schuldner auf dem Sekundärmarkt. Markus C. Kerber, Technische Universität Berlin, vertritt die Ansicht, dass diese »neue Offenmarktpolitik« der EZB, der Erwerb von Staatsanleihen auf dem...

We investigate the effects of official fiscal data and creative accounting signals on interest rate spreads between bond yields in the European Union. Our model predicts that risk premia contained in government bond spreads should increase in both the official fiscal position and the expected...

The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Yet the U.S. government has seemingly unbounded access to credit at low interest rates. Historically, Treasury yields have been below the growth rate of the economy. The paper examines the...

Das vorliegende Gutachten umfasst drei Teile. Zunächst befasse ich mich mit dem Argument, dass ein Insolvenzverfahren zwingend zu höheren Zinsen auf Staatsanleihen führen würde. Im Anschluss daran beschreibe ich den Kontext und Ablauf der Restrukturierungen von Staatsanleihen in (i)...

The crisis has underlined the strong interdependence between the euro-area banking and sovereign crises. To understand the role domestic banks have played in holding sovereign debt, a breakdown of government debt by holding sectors is required. The data shows that at the start of the crisis,...

We investigate the effects of official fiscal data and creative accounting signals on interest rate spreads between bond yields in the European Union. Our model predicts that risk premia contained in government bond spreads should increase in both, the official fiscal position and the expected...