TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Cecco,Marcello
AU  - Pecchi,Lorenzo
AU  - Piga,Gustavo
TI  - Managing public debt: index-linked bonds in theory and practice 
SN  - 1858984912
AV  - HJ8036 .M36 1997
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Brookfield, Vt., US
PB  - E. Elgar
KW  - Debts, Public
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Bonds
KW  - Indexation (Economics)
KW  - Inflation (Finance)
N1  - 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
ER  -