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How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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analyze the sustainability of the fiscal policy. We pursue three approaches to examine the sustainability. First, we calculate …
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Using a recursive empirical model of the real interest rate, GDP growth, and the primary government deficit in the U.S., I solve for the ergodic distribution of the debt/GDP ratio. If such a distribution exists, the government is satisfying its intertemporal budget constraint. One key finding is...
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The global economy has a chronic shortage of safe assets which lies behind many recent macroeconomic imbalances. This paper provides a simple model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM), its recessionary safety traps, and its policy antidotes. Safety traps share many common features with...
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Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify …
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traditional approach to evaluate debt sustainability, and examine three alternative approaches that provide useful econometric and … model-simulation tools to analyze debt sustainability. The first approach is Bohn's non-structural empirical framework based … three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …
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was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We … propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the … strong measures are potentially needed to reestablish sustainability. Exchange rates that appear overvalued in the baseline …
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examine the channels through which governments achieve fiscal sustainability. We evaluate the ability of this framework to …
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