Managing the UK national debt 1694-2017

We construct a new monthly dataset for UK government debt over the period 1694 to 2017 based on price and quantity data for each individual bond issued. This enables us to examine long run fiscal sustainability using the theoretically relevant variable of the market value of debt, and investigate t...

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Main Authors: Ellison, M, Scott, A
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2017