Managing public debt : index-linked bonds in theory and practice / edited by Marcello De Cecco, Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga.

Contains articles from an international conference "Index-linked bonds in theory and in practice" held in Rome on October 19, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Introduction. 1. Index-linked government securities: the UK experience and perspective/ John Townend 2. Index-linked bonds: the Swedish experience/ Mats Persson 3. Inflation-protected retirement plans/ Zvi Bodie 4. Tax smoothing with price-index-linked bonds: a case study of Italy and the United Kingdom/ Alessandro Missale 5. Reducing the cost of government debt: the role of index-linked bonds/ Silverio Foresi, Alessandro Penati, George Pennacchi 6. Index-linked bonds from an academic, market and policy-making standpoint/ Emilio Barone, Rainer S. Masera 7. Real interest rates and inflation: an ex-ante empirical analysis/ Shmuel Kandel, Aharon R. Ofer, Oded Sarig 8. Who's afraid of index-linked bonds?/ Lorenzo Pecchi, Gustavo Piga 9. Differences and analogies between index-linked and foreign-currency bonds: a theoretical and empirical analysis/ Francesco Drudi, Alessandro Prati Index.