The Relationship between Federal Deficits and Real Interest Rates

K C Tseng

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2000, vol. 14, issue 1, 5-15

Abstract: Real interest rates fluctuated a great deal since the 1970s. In the 1980s federal deficits accelerated and their impact on both nominal and real interest rates gained lots of attention. Based on monthly and quarterly data from January 1971 to December 1997 it is found that federal deficits had significant positive effect on the real interest rates: personal income or consumption are found to have significant positive impact on the real interest rates, whereas expected inflation and money supply are found to have negative impact on the real interest rates. These findings are consistent with the conventional economic theory. Copyright 2000 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 2000
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