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Understanding the High Interest Rates on Italian Government Securities

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  • Giovannini, Alberto
  • Piga, Gustavo

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This paper discusses several determinants of the differential between yields on Italian government securities and yields on foreign government securities. We concentrate on expectations of (at least partial) insolvency, tax factors and exchange rate expectations. The evidence suggests that most of the differential between the cost of Italian debt and the cost of foreign (for example, German) debt is due to exchange rate expectations.

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  • Giovannini, Alberto & Piga, Gustavo, 1992. "Understanding the High Interest Rates on Italian Government Securities," CEPR Discussion Papers 720, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:720
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    1. Gómez-Puig, Marta, 2008. "Monetary integration and the cost of borrowing," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 455-479, April.
    2. Fazlioglu, S., 2013. "Determinants of sovereign debt yield spreads under EMU: Pairwise approach," Research Memorandum 007, Maastricht University, Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE).
    3. Saukkonen, Erja, 1995. "Default risk on Finnish government foreign currency debt," Research Discussion Papers 30/1995, Bank of Finland.
    4. Heinemann, Friedrich & Winschel, Viktor, 2001. "Public deficits and borrowing costs: the missing half of market discipline," ZEW Discussion Papers 01-16, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    5. Claudio E. V. Borio & Robert N. McCauley, 1995. "The anatomy of the bond market turbulence of 1994," BIS Working Papers 32, Bank for International Settlements.
    6. Landon, Stuart & Smith, Constance E., 2007. "Government debt spillovers in a monetary union," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 135-154, August.
    7. Caporale, Guglielmo Maria & Williams, Geoffrey, 2002. "Long-term nominal interest rates and domestic fundamentals," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 119-130.
    8. repec:zbw:bofrdp:1995_030 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Saukkonen, Erja, 1995. "Default risk on Finnish government foreign currency debt," Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 30/1995, Bank of Finland.

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    Keywords

    Exchange-rate Expectations; Italian Debt; Public Debt; Risk-Premium; Witholding Tax;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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