Ardagna, Silvia, Caselli, Francesco 
ORCID: 0009-0001-5191-7156 and Lane, Timothy
(2004)
Fiscal discipline and the cost of public debt service: some estimates for OECD countries.
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National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA., USA.
Abstract
We use a panel of 16 OECD countries over several decades to investigate the effects of government debts and deficits on long-term interest rates. In simple static specifications, a one-percentage-point increase in the primary deficit relative to GDP increases contemporaneous long-term interest rates by about 10 basis points. In a vector autoregression (VAR), the same shock leads to a cumulative increase of almost 150 basis points after 10 years. The effect of debt on interest rates is non-linear: only for countries with above-average levels of debt does an increase in debt affect the interest rate. World fiscal policy is also important: an increase in total OECD-government borrowing increases each country's interest rates. However, domestic fiscal policy continues to affect domestic interest rates even after controlling for worldwide debts and deficits.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.nber.org |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 Silvia Ardagna, Francesco Caselli, and Timothy Lane. |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| JEL classification: | H - Public Economics > H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2008 14:33 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5294 |
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