Debt ceiling acts as fiscal stabiliser, says IMF paper

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An International Monetary Fund paper published on January 25 sheds light on the optimal value of fiscal rules' parameters and on the effects of imposing a debt ceiling.

Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Leonardo Martinez and Francisco Roch, the paper's authors, use a sovereign default framework to show how a government may benefit from implementing a debt ceiling. The authors argue that an expectation of lower future debt levels leads to substantial declines in interest rates, which in turn lead to non

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