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Inflation Uncertainty and Optimal Debt Maturity: An Empirical Look at Canadian and U. S. Government Bonds
Author(s) -
Miller Victoria
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
canadian journal of administrative sciences / revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1936-4490
pISSN - 0825-0383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1936-4490.1997.tb00134.x
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , inflation (cosmology) , economics , debt , welfare economics , bond , government debt , monetary economics , macroeconomics , political science , finance , physics , theoretical physics , law
Abstract The article studies the effect of inflation uncertainty on the maturity composition of debt. It is argued that inflation uncertainty steepens the term structure of interest rates and therefore reduces the optimal maturity of debt. The inverse relationship between inflation uncertainty and debt maturity is illustrated using Canadian and U.S. government bonds. Thus the study offers evidence in support of policies that reduce inflation uncertainty. Résumé Cette éude traite des effets de I'incertitude quant à I'inflation sur I'échéance de la dette. II est dit que Vincertitude quant à I'inflation rend la structure de terme des taux d'intérěAts plus abrupte et, par conséquent, diminue I'échéance optimale de la dette. La relation inverse entre Vincertitude quant à Vinflation et I'échéance de la dette est illustrée pour le cas des obligations gouvernemen‐tales du Canada et des états‐Unis. Ainsi, cet article appuie les politiques visant à diminuer l'incertitude quant à I'inflation .

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