Artikel

Confederation debt management since 1970

This paper analyzes the Confederation's debt management. The Confederation actively manages roll over and interest rate risk by increasing bond maturity with increasing marketable debt-to-GDP levels. It further engages in active but asymmetric, one-sided interest rate positioning; i.e., it uses mostly bonds to affect debt maturity and does so only when the interest rate environment is favorable to lock-in interest rates by issuing longer-term bonds. Debt management is mainly driven by marketable debt rather than total debt. Issuing behavior became more regular and demand-oriented during the early 1990s when marketable and total debt increased in tandem.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics ; ISSN: 2235-6282 ; Volume: 155 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 15 ; Pages: 1-23 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
Thema
Government debt
Government debt management
Government debt maturity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Guggenheim, Basil
Meichle, Mario
Nellen, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1186/s41937-019-0042-6
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Guggenheim, Basil
  • Meichle, Mario
  • Nellen, Thomas
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2019

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