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On the irrelevance of the maturity structure of government debt without commitment


Abstract: This paper presents a government debt game with the property that if the timing of debt auctions within a period is sufficiently unfettered, the set of equilibrium outcome paths of real economic variables given the government has access to a rich debt structure is identical to the set of equilibrium outcome paths given the government can issue only one-period debt.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Part of Series: Staff Report

Publication Date: 2001

Number: 268