Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289967 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1341
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Total public debt in most emerging markets grew before and after the pandemic with a sizable share in foreign currency. Along this trend, interest payments increased even in the presence of active fiscal rules in some countries. How should debt management of public debt be set under a fiscal rule? This document studies how optimal currency composition reduces the cost of debt and facilitates fiscal rule compliance but increases budget risk. Using a small open economy model, we provide evidence that optimal foreign currency holdings in Chile, Colombia and Mexico depart considerably from observed; remaining low (high) in periods of favorable (adverse) external or domestic macroeconomic and financial conditions.
Subjects: 
sovereign debt management
fiscal rules
currency composition
JEL: 
E61
E62
H63
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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