Faraglia, E, Marcet, A, Oikonomou, R and Scott, A (2019) Government Debt Management: The Long and the Short of It. Review of Economic Studies, 86 (6). pp. 2554-2604. ISSN 0034-6527
Abstract
Standard optimal Debt Management (DM) models prescribe a dominant role for long bonds and advocate against issuing short bonds. They require very large positions in order to complete markets and assume each period that governments repurchase all outstanding bonds and reissue (r/r) new ones. These features of DM are inconsistent with US data. We introduce incomplete markets via small transaction costs which serves to make optimal DM more closely resemble the data : r/r are negligible, short bond issuance substantial and persistent and short and long bonds positively co-vary. Intuitively long bonds help smooth taxes over states and short bonds over time. Solving incomplete market models with multiple assets is challenging so a further contribution of this paper is introducing a novel computational method to find global solutions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Subject Areas: | Economics |
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© 2018 Review of Economic Studies Ltd / Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for (forthcoming) publication in The Review of Economic Studies following peer review. |
Funder Name: | Economic and Social Research Council |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2018 09:36 |
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 Sep 2018 |
Subjects: |
Bonds Debts |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 02:42 |
URI: | https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/1007 |