Should we worry about the rising public debt?

In many countries, the debt / GDP ratio has been increasing, and the arrival of the Corona pandemic worsened the situation. What is the dynamic of debt / GDP, and are current levels of government debt sustainable? How do markets perceive government bonds - are these assets special? What are the implications of unprecedented levels of debt in rich economies and for a small open economy like Sweden? A seminar with Irina Zviadadze, Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris.

The talk was followed by a panel moderated by Pehr Wissén, Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Panelists:

Kristin Magnusson Bernard, Chief Executive Officer at Första AP-fonden (AP1)

Martin Åström, Policy Officer, Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom, European Commission

Should we worry about the rising public debt?

Practical information

Date: May 18
Time: 15:00-16:15
Location: Zoom

Further information:

General questions: Hedvig Mattsson,event@houseoffinance.se
Press contact: Sara Ottosson,sara.ottosson@hhs.se

Irina Zviadadze

Irina is an Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris and a Bertil Danielsson Visiting Professor at Swedish House of Finance.

Her research is focused on understanding the sources of risk premia in the foreign exchange market, understanding properties of the term structures of asset prices, and developing diagnostics methods for macro-based asset pricing models. She has presented her papers at major conferences such as American Economic Association, Western Finance Association, Society of Financial Econometrics, Society of Economic Dynamics, and Econometric Society. Her papers are published in the Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.