Article | American Economic Review | March 2001

Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?

by John Y. Campbell and Luis M. Viceira

Keywords: Bonds;

Format: Print

29 pages

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Campbell, John Y., and Luis M. Viceira. "Who Should Buy Long-Term Bonds?" American Economic Review 91, no. 1 (March 2001): 99–127. (Winner of FAME Research Prize. International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering presented by University of Lausanne. Click here for Appendix.)

Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that traditional US GAAP has too many disclosure and fair-value requirements that impose very high compliance costs on private companies. But there are influential players—including the Big Four auditors—who oppose creating the PCC. They argue that the compliance costs of traditional GAAP are the price of high-quality accounting standards. Balancing these powerful interests, Brennan must make a decision on the PCC; at stake is US GAAP's ability to facilitate capital allocation decisions in the economy.

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