OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook 2019

Acknowledgements

The OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook is part of the activities of the OECD Working Party on Public Debt Management, incorporated in the programme of work of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs’ Bond Markets and Public Debt Management Unit. This Borrowing Outlook was prepared by the OECD Bond Markets and Public Debt Management Unit (Fatos Koc (Head of the Unit) and Gary Mills (Statistician)). Serdar Celik (Senior Policy Analyst), Alessandro Maravalle (Economist), and Lukasz Rawdanowicz (Senior Economist) have provided their valuable feedback to Chapter 1. Hiroshi Ohata (Ministry of Finance, Japan) and Johannes Schluetz (Finanzagentur, Germany) have provided their valuable feedback to Chapter 2. The Debt Management Offices of Greece, Iceland, Ireland and Portugal provided extensive data and comments in preparation of Chapter 3. The following Steering Committee members Teppo Koivisto, (Chair; Treasury, Finland); Sir Robert Stheeman (Debt Management Office, the United Kingdom); and Davide Iacovoni (Treasury, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy) have provided their comments and suggestions to this edition. Pamela Duffin (Communications Manager) and Edward Smiley (Publications Officer) have supported the whole team with invaluable publishing guidance and proof reading expertise.