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The case of the undying debt

The French government currently honors a very unusual debt contract: an annuity that was issued in 1738 and currently yields ?1.20 per year. I tell the story of this unique debt, which serves as an anecdotal but symbolic summary of French public finances since the 18th century.
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-09-12

Working Paper
Maturity, indebtedness, and default risk

We present a novel and tractable model of long-term sovereign debt. We make two sets of contributions. First, on the substantive side, using Argentina as a test case we show that unlike one-period debt models, our model of long-term sovereign debt is capable of accounting for the average spread, the average default frequency, and the average debt-to-output ratio of Argentina over the 1991-2001 period without any deterioration in the model's ability to account for Argentina's cyclical facts. Using our calibrated model we determine what Argentina's debt, default frequency and welfare would have ...
Working Papers , Paper 09-2

Journal Article
The federal debt: too little revenue or too much spending

The rise in the national debt... is entirely a consequence of the federal government?s increase of expenditures without an offsetting increase in revenues.
Economic Synopses

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California bonds--after Prop. 13

FRBSF Economic Letter

Journal Article
The benchmark U.S. Treasury market: recent performance and possible alternatives - commentary

Economic Policy Review , Issue Apr , Pages 149-153

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The conduct of monetary policy with a shrinking stock of government debt

Proceedings

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Long-term tendencies in budget deficits and debt

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

Conference Paper
Long-term tendencies in budget deficits and debt (general discussion)

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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Review of the month: Recent banking and credit developments

Federal Reserve Bulletin , Issue Jan

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A little-talked-about solution to the long-term budget problem

Minneapolis Fed Vice President Preston Miller suggests that long-term federal budget problems, exacerbated by the needs of an aging population, might be alleviated by a new approach to funding benefits received by that same aging population.
The Region , Volume 16 , Issue Dec. , Pages 56-57

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