Arbeitspapier

Debt and Interest Rates: The U.S. and the Euro Area

We find that real interest rates paid on government debt depend significantly upon current and expected future levels of debt, in Europe as in the US. But this result only emerges when we condition on foreign interest rates, illustrating financial international integration. The previously strong effect of debt on US interest rates has been diluted by the addition of 2004-2006 data to the sample, perhaps reflecting the effect of massive purchases of US securities by foreign central banks. Another finding is that the asymmetry in the effect of US interest rates on European interest rates has not disappeared with the coming of European Economic and Monetary Union in 1999, as one might have thought.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Economics Discussion Papers ; No. 2007-11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Central Banks and Their Policies
Thema
interest rates
inflation
debt
financial integration

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frankel, Jeffrey
Chinn, Menzie D.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frankel, Jeffrey
  • Chinn, Menzie D.
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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