Abstract
In this work I analyze the model proposed by Goldfajn (2000) to study the choice of the denomination of the public debt. The main purpose of the analysis is pointing out possible reasons why new em pirical evidence provided by Bevilaqua, Garcia and Nechio (2004), regarding a more recent time period, finds a lower empirical support to the model. I also provide a measure of the overestimation of the welfare gains of hedging the debt led by the simplified time frame of the model. Assuming a time-preference parameter of 0.9, for instance, welfare gains associated with a hedge to the debt that reduces to a half a once-for-all 20%-of-GDP shock to government spending run around 1.43% of GDP under the no-tax-smoothing structure of the model. Under a Ramsey allocation, though, welfare gains amount to just around 0.05% of GDP.
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