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Marchesi, Silvia (2000) Buybacks of domestic debt in public debt management. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.573).

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Abstract

In the model a fiscal stabilisation is announced under asymmetry of information between the government and the private investors. The government could be of two types: a dry type and a wet type, according to the amount of spending cuts it decides to make. Private investors may thus lack confidence in the stabilisation program and interest rates would be too high, reflecting this lack of credibility. A dry type which has to finance new spending may want to signal its resolution (type) in order to lower its interest costs and one way to do that would be to repurchase a fraction of the outstanding debt. The wet type could also decide to buyback some of its debt in order to pretend to be a dry type and to (possibly) lower its interest payments. It is showed that a critical amount of buyback exists such that the two types could be separated.

Item Type:

Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)

Subjects:

H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance

Divisions:

Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Debts, Public -- Management, Debt equity conversion, Debt relief, Swaps (Finance)

Series Name:

Warwick economic research papers

Publisher:

University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Place of Publication:

Coventry

Official Date:

25 October 2000

Dates:

Date	Event
25 October 2000	Published

Number:

No.573

Number of Pages:

Status:

Not Peer Reviewed

Access rights to Published version:

Open Access

Funder:

Fifth Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP5)

Grant number:

ERB4001GT973677 (FFP)

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