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considering an economy in steady state where all agents hold Barro expectations: they believe that government debt must …
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-monetary sovereign debt. Three conditions must be satisfied for helicopter money always to boost aggregate demand. First, there must be …
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In this paper, the author considers the sovereign debt in the form of one-period government bonds with default risk …' interest by the borrowing government at the time of debt repayment, which captures the lenders' trust in the government …'s propensity to repay the debt and is denoted as », also determines the default risk: a higher » means a lower default risk ceteris …
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Governments through the ages have appropriated real resources through the monopoly of the 'coinage'. In modern fiat money economies, the monopoly of the issue of legal tender is generally assigned to an agency of the state, the Central Bank, which may have varying degrees of operational and...
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well as the concept of half- and full-debt-cycles are used to argue that the German current account deßcit can easily move …
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Based on a panel data model this paper investigates whether the effects of fiscal policy on national saving in Europe have changed after the Maastricht Treaty came into force. Recently Giavazzi, Jappelli and Pagano (2000) found evidence that national saving responds nonlinearly to fiscal policy...
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This paper revisits Political Budget Cycles (PBCs) in the enlarged European Union (EU). Based on a panel of 25 current EU member states from 1996 to 2012, we show that governments frequently fiscally stimulate the economy prior to elections; a phenomenon that is seemingly not only an ‘Eastern...
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We find that real interest rates paid on government debt depend significantly upon current and expected future levels … of debt, in Europe as in the US. But this result only emerges when we condition on foreign interest rates, illustrating … financial international integration. The previously strong effect of debt on US interest rates has been diluted by the addition …
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The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even … if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modelling does not take into … account debt as one of the crucial determinants of economic dynamics. Our contribution, in this paper, is to investigate the …
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In the process of the German unification and especially after the formal unification in October 1990, Eastern Germany was supported by West Germany by a lot of measures. The main purposes were to improve the infrastructure, to stimulate private investment and to alleviate the adjustment process...
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