Trills instead of T-Bills: It's time to replace part of government debt with shares in GDP

Economists' Voice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kamstra, Mark J ^a   Shiller, Robert J ^b,c,d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MacroMarkets LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

debt; derivatives; equity; GDP; public finance; risk management; shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957736603     PISSN: 15533832     EISSN: 15533832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1782     Document Type: Article

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