01686cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000556 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451922806 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Goldfajn, Ilan. Public Debt Indexation and Denomination : The Case of Brazil / Ilan Goldfajn. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The paper models the optimal debt management strategy of the public sector when issuing nominal, price-level-indexed and foreign-denominated debt securities. The model predicts that the variance of inflation, the size of the public debt, the variance of the real exchange rate, and the correlation of inflation with public expenditures are the main determinants of public debt management. Using this framework, the paper analyzes the Brazilian experience with indexed debt in the last decade. In particular, it explains the large increase of indexed public debt in Brazil prior to the 1994 Real plan and, thereafter, the steady decline in its use. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/018 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1998/018/001.1998.issue-018-en.xml IMF e-Library