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Discount rates, debt maturity and the fiscal theory / by Alexandre Corhay, Thilo Kind, Howard Kung and Gonzalo Morales.FB3-5/2021-58E-PDF

"This paper examines how the transmission of government portfolio risk arising from maturity operations depends on the stance of monetary/fiscal policy. Accounting for risk premia in the fiscal theory allows the government portfolio to affect the expected inflation, even in a frictionless economy. The effects of maturity rebalancing on expected inflation in the fiscal theory directly depend on the conditional nominal term premium, giving rise to an optimal debt maturity policy that is state dependent. In a calibrated macro-finance model, we demonstrate that maturity operations have sizable effects on expected inflation and output through our novel risk transmission mechanism"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency
  • Bank of Canada, issuing body.
TitleDiscount rates, debt maturity and the fiscal theory / by Alexandre Corhay, Thilo Kind, Howard Kung and Gonzalo Morales.
Series title
  • Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2021-58
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • "Last updated: November 26, 2021."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-49).
Publishing information
  • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2021.
  • ©2021
Author / Contributor
  • Corhay, Alexandre, author.
Description1 online resource (iii, 59 pages).
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2021-58E-PDF
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