Build America bonds
By: Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali, Yuhang Xing
Contributors: Bhansali, Vineer; Xing, Yuhang; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16008; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16008.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Build America Bonds (BABs) are a new form of municipal financing introduced in 2009.  Investors in BAB municipal bonds receive interest payments that are taxable, but issuers receive a subsidy from the U.S.  Treasury.  The BAB program has succeeded in lowering the cost of funding for state and local governments with BAB issuers obtaining finance 54 basis points lower, on average, compared to issuing regular municipal bonds.  For institutional investors, BAB issue yields are 116 basis points higher than comparable Treasuries and 88 basis points higher than comparable highly rated corporate bonds.  For individual investors, BABs have lower yields than regular municipal bonds.  Thus, on average the Federal government subsidy disadvantages individual U.S.  taxpayers, who are the main holders of municipal bonds, and benefits new entrants in the municipal bond market"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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