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Pandemic has improved Italy’s debt dynamics

The COVID-19 crisis has led to something of a paradox: Italy’s public debt ratio has risen, but the probability of default has fallen. That’s largely because BTP yields are likely to stay far lower than seemed plausible before the pandemic, meaning that interest costs will fall. As a result, we now think Italy’s debt ratio is likely to decline over the next decade.

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