Inflation and Public Debt Reversals in the G7 Countries

This paper investigates the impact of low or high infl ation on the public debt-to-GDP ratio in the G-7 countries. Our simulations suggest that if infl ation were to fall to zero for fi ve years, the average net debt-to-GDP ratio would increase by about 5 percentage points during that period. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bernardin Akitoby, Ariel Binder, Takuji Komatsuzaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Banking and Financial Economics
Online Access:https://jbfe.wz.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=198310