On the Failure to Reach the Optimal Government Debt Ceiling

Risks

Ricardo Huamán-Aguilar¹  Abel Cadenillas² 

[1] Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima 32, Peru;Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Central Academic Building 639, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G1, Canada;

关键词: debt crisis;    government debt management;    optimal government debt ceiling;    government debt ratio;    stochastic control;    decision analysis;    risk management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/risks6040138

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We develop a government debt management model to study the optimal debt ceiling when the ability of the government to generate primary surpluses to reduce the debt ratio is limited. We succeed in finding a solution for the optimal debt ceiling. We study the conditions under which a country is not able to reduce its debt ratio to reach its optimal debt ceiling, even in the long run. In addition, this model with bounded intervention is consistent with the fact that, in reality, countries that succeed in reducing their debt ratio do not do so immediately, but over some period of time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first theoretical model on the debt ceiling that accounts for bounded interventions.

【 授权许可】

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