New and timely statistical indicators on government debt securities

Dagmar Hartwig Lojsch, Asier Cornejo Pérez and Jorge Diz Dias

No 8, Statistics Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: New monthly statistical indicators on government debt securities for euro area countries have now been developed on the basis of the information contained in the Centralised Securities Database (CSDB), an internal database available to the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The CSDB is jointly operated by the ESCB and contains timely and high-quality security-by-security reference data on debt securities, equities and investment funds. The new indicators on government debt securities provide an indication of the expected disbursements made for the servicing of issued debt securities together with the associated interest rate (nominal yield), broken down by country, original and remaining maturity, currency and type of coupon rate. This paper describes in detail the newly compiled statistical information and thus contributes to further describing the euro area government bond markets. The new indicators on euro area government debt securities are also highly relevant for policy-making and monetary and fiscal analyses. They indicate that, as at December 2014, the debt service scheduled for such securities in 2015 stood at approximately 15.9% of GDP ( JEL Classification: E62, H63, H68

Keywords: debt securities; euro area; government debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06
Note: 1731748
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