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Liquidity assessments: an alternative financing option for variable-rate debt.
Government Finance Review
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August 01, 2007 |
Badach, Keri; Masih, Michael; Petek, Gabriel |
COPYRIGHT 2007 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
An environment of volatile and very high interest rates in the late 1970s and early 1980s led to significant innovations in the municipal debt markets that remain operative today For municipal bond investors, volatile interest rates: translated to the risk of severely depressed asset values as long-term rates rose to unprecedented levels. Similarly, issuers of long-term municipal debt struggled with the burden of high debt service costs brought on by the same unstable and high interest rate setting. Based on these factors, variable-rate demand obligations (VRDOs) were developed that allow nominally long-term debt to behave (and be priced) as if it were short-term paper, ...
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