Bibliograph

Public debt management, theory and history, edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Draghi

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Public debt management, theory and history, edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Draghi

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Public debt management

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

873806574

Responsibility statement

edited by Rudiger Dornbusch and Mario Draghi

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

theory and history

Summary

As Europe proceeds towards economic and monetary union, fiscal convergence and the prospect of a common money are at the centre of discussion. This volume from the Centre for Economic Policy Research brings together theoretical, applied and historical research on the management of public debt and its implications for financial stability. Gale fills a gap in the literature, using a consistent framework to investigate the welfare economics of public debt, while Calvo and Guidotti analyse the trade-off between indexation and maturity when it comes to minimizing debt service. Confidence crises have become relevant again in view of the high debt ratios in countries such as Belgium, Italy and Ireland. Alesina, Prati and Tabellini develop a formal model of the propagation of a debt run and use it to interpret Italian debt panics. Giavazzi and Pagano concentrate on how inappropriate debt management can precipitate a run on the currency while Makinen and Woodward review a broad sweep of historical experience.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The efficient design of public debt / Douglas Gale. Discussion / Olivier Jean Blanchard -- Indexation and maturity of government bonds : an exploratory model / Guillermo A. Calvo and Pablo E. Guidotti. Discussion / William H. Branson, Allen Drazen -- Public confidence and debt management : a model and a case study of Italy / Alberto Alesina, Alessandro Prati and Guido Tabellini. Discussion / Mario Draghi, Lars E.O. Svensson -- Confidence crises and public debt management / Francesco Giavazzi and Marco Pagano. Discussion / Enrica Detragiache, Maurice Obstfeld -- Funding crises in the aftermath of World War I / Gail E. Makinen and G. Thomas Woodward. Discussion / Alberto Giovanni, Andrea Ripa Di MeanaThe capital levy in theory and practice / Barry Eichengreen. Discussion / David Begg, Vittorio Grilli -- Episodes in the public debt history of the united States / E. Cary Brown. Discussion / Barry P. Bosworth, Giampaolo Galli -- The Italian national debt conversion of 1906 / Marcello de Cecco. Discussion / Richard Portes, Ignazio Visco -- Fear of deficit financing : is it rational? / Marcus Miller, Robert Skidelsky and Paul Weller. Discussion / Giusepe Bertola -- Government domestic debt and the risk of default : a political-economic model of the strategic role of debt / Philippe Aghion and Patrick Dolton. Discussion / Jean-Pierre Danthine, Pietro Reichlin

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