Government Debt, Limited Foresight, and Longer-term Interest Rates

Christopher Gust and Arsenios Skaperdas

No 2024-027, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We study the relationship between government debt and interest rates in an environment where financial market participants have limited foresight about the future path of government debt. We show that limited foresight substantially attenuates estimates of the effect of government debt on longer-term yields relative to the benchmark of rational expectations often used in empirical analysis.

Keywords: Government debt; Longer-term interest rates; Term premiums; Limited foresight (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E40 E70 G10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 p.
Date: 2024-05-03
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2024.027

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