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- Title
ARE GOVERNMENT BONDS NET WEALTH? EVIDENCE FOR THE UNITED STATES.
- Authors
Evans, Paul
- Abstract
This paper investigates whether government bonds are viewed as net wealth. If they are, the nominal interest rate in steady-state equilibrium should be an increasing function of the government debt and of government spending. Using forward interest rates realized during World War II, this paper finds no evidence of such a relationship. These data afford an especially powerful test because the federal debt rose from 29 to 106 percent of trend output during the war. This enormous increase in government debt actually appears to have reduced forward interest rates by a statistically significant, but small, amount.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT securities; INTEREST rates; ECONOMIC equilibrium
- Publication
Economic Inquiry, 1988, Vol 26, Issue 4, p551
- ISSN
0095-2583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1465-7295.1988.tb01517.x