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Jasper Lukkezen, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa

A Stochastic Indicator for Sovereign Debt Sustainability

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We propose a stochastic indicator to assess government debt sustainability. This indicator combines the effect of economic uncertainty – represented by stochastic simulations of interest and growth rates – with the expected fiscal response, which provides information on the long-term country-specific attitude towards fiscal sustainability. We apply our framework to postwar data for nine OECD countries and find that our indicator – the potential increase in debt in bad states of the world – distinguishes countries that have sustainability concerns (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Iceland) from those that do not (the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany).
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