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Fiscal Rules and the Sovereign Default Premium

By Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Francisco Roch, Leonardo Martinez

January 1, 2012

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Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Francisco Roch, and Leonardo Martinez. Fiscal Rules and the Sovereign Default Premium, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 23, 2024
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Summary

This paper finds optimal fiscal rule parameter values and measures the effects of imposing fiscal rules using a default model calibrated to an economy that in the absence of a fiscal rule pays a significant sovereign default premium. The paper also studies the case in which the government conducts a voluntary debt restructuring to capture the capital gains from the increase in its debt market value implied by a rule announcement. In addition, the paper shows how debt ceilings may reduce the procyclicality of fiscal policy and thus consumption volatility.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Debt limits, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, National accounts, Personal income, Public debt

Keywords: Announcement debt path, Countercyclical policy, Debt ceiling, Debt dilution, Debt exchange, Debt level, Debt limits, Default, Default premium, Endogenous borrowing constraints, Europe, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal rule, Fiscal rules, Issued debt, Long-term debt, Personal income, Rule announcement, Sovereign default premium, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    28

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/030

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012030

  • ISBN:

    9781463933159

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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