OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
- Discontinued
- Continues:
- Financial Market Trends
The articles in Financial Market Trends focus on trends, structural issues and developments in financial markets and the financial sector.
- Semiannual
- ISSN: 19952872 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19952872
A Suggested New Approach to the Measurement and Reporting of Gross Short- Term Borrowing Operations by Governments
As part of its Borrowing Outlook, the OECD estimates gross short– term government borrowing requirements. The article concludes that all methods for measuring short-term borrowing needs studied here – except one – provide either significantly underestimated or substantially overestimated measures. The article therefore suggests adopting the following measure: Gross Short-Term Marketable Borrowing Requirements is equal to Net Short-Term Borrowing Requirements plus the outstanding amount of the stock of short-term instruments. This new measure (referred to as Method 2 in the study) yields, in principle, meaningful estimates, comparable across different countries. JEL Classification: G15, G18, H63, H68. Keywords: measuring gross short-term borrowing requirements, debt
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