Arbeitspapier

Debt as Safe Asset

The price of a safe asset reflects not only the expected discounted future cash flows but also future service flows, since retrading allows partial insurance of idiosyncratic risk in an incomplete markets setting. This lowers the issuers' interest burden and allows the government to run a permanent (primary) deficit without ever paying back its debt. As idiosyncratic risk rises during recessions, so does the value of the service flows bestowing the safe asset with a negative ß. This resolves government debt valuation puzzles. Nevertheless, the government faces a "Debt Laffer Curve". The paper also has important implications for fiscal debt sustainability.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9500

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
safe asset
government debt
Debt Laffer Curve
Ponzi Scheme
fiscal capacity
I Theory of Money
r vs. g

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brunnermeier, Markus K.
Merkel, Sebastian
Sannikov, Yuliy
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brunnermeier, Markus K.
  • Merkel, Sebastian
  • Sannikov, Yuliy
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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