Interest Rates and Budget Deficits

A Study of the Advanced Economies
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-10135-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

There is widespread belief that the high interest rates of the 1980s and 1990s in the developed world have been caused by high budget deficits. Yet, there is no conclusive evidence to support such a belief. This book systematically examines this and other questions relating to the behaviour of real interest rates in eleven developed countries. The results show that generalizations across the countries can be hazardous and strongly suggests that factors specific to individual countries are still of vital importance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Kanhaya L.

Moazzami, Bakhtiar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 2 PROBLEMS OF MEASURING EX-ANTE REAL INTEREST RATES; Chapter 3 3 ESTIMATES AND BEHAVIOUR OF EX-ANTE REAL INTEREST RATES; Chapter 4 4 INTEREST RATES, INFLATION AND TAXES; Chapter 5 5 ON THE EXOGENEITY OF THE REAL INTEREST RATE; Chapter 6 6 BUDGET DEFICITS AND INTEREST RATES: THEORY; Chapter 7 7 BUDGET DEFICITS AND INTEREST RATES: THE EVIDENCE; Chapter 8 8 SOME LESSONS; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Über Autor(innen)

Kanhaya L.Gupta is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta., Bakhtiar Moazzami is Associate Professor at Lakehead University. Both have published widely in the fields of macroeconomics and monetary policy.