Government borrowing cost and budget deficits: is investment spending different?
We find that bond markets charge significantly higher interest rates for deficits due to higher government current spending than for deficits due to higher government investment. Thus, from a sovereign risk perspective, not all government budget deficits are created equal. To show this, we use a pan...
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University of Oxford
2020
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