The Real Interest Rate Yield on Long Term Municipals: What is the Role of Budget Deficits?

Cebula, Richard and Merrick, Shelley (2002): The Real Interest Rate Yield on Long Term Municipals: What is the Role of Budget Deficits? Published in: The International Business & Economics Research Conference Program & Proceedings , Vol. 13, No. 1 (30 October 2003): pp. 1-10.

Abstract

This study empirically finds, using ECM, that the primary federal budget deficit shares a bi-directional relationship with the ex ante real interest rate yield on long term municipal bonds. That is, the primary budget deficit acts to raise the real municipal bond yield whereas that yield also acts to raise the primary deficit.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: real interest rate yield on municipal bonds; federal budget deficit; crowding out
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E43 - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects; H - Public Economics > H6 - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt > H61 - Budget ; Budget Systems; H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H74 - State and Local Borrowing

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