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Finance and Economics Discussion Series: The Effect of Deficit-Reduction Laws on Real Interest Rates

Finance and Economics Discussion Series: The Effect of Deficit-Reduction Laws on Real Interest Rates

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 128872215X
ISBN13: 9781288722150
Publisher: Bibliogov
Published: Feb 6 2013
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This paper uses news reports about two deficit-reduction laws of the past decade to identify days when expected fiscal policy clearly became more or less expansionary. The paper also proposes a technique for identifying whether the real interest rate increased or decreased on those days, based on changes in the nominal interest rate, the exchange rate, commodity prices, and stock prices. As economic theory predicts, higher expected government spending and budget deficits raised real interest rates and the value of the dollar, while lower expected spending and deficits reduced real rates and the value of the dollar.

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