Author : Gabriel Desgranges
Release : 2014-09-12
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 436/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Optimal Maturity Structure of Sovereign Debt in Situation of Near Default by : Gabriel Desgranges
Download or read book Optimal Maturity Structure of Sovereign Debt in Situation of Near Default written by Gabriel Desgranges. This book was released on 2014-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the relationship between default and the maturity structure of the debt portfolio of a Sovereign, under uncertainty. The Sovereign faces a trade-off between a future costly default and a high current fiscal effort. This results into a debt crisis in case a large initial issuance of long term debt is followed by a sequence of negative macro shocks. Prior uncertainty about future fundamentals is then a source of default through its effect on long term interest rates and the optimal debt issuance. Intuitively, the Sovereign chooses a portfolio implying a risk of default because this risk generates a correlation between the future value of long term debt and future fundamentals. Long term debt serves as a hedging instrument against the risk on fundamentals. When expected fundamentals are high, the Sovereign issues a large amount of long term debt, the expected default probability increases, and so does the long term interest rate.