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The Great Recession and the Global Financial Crisis have left many developed countries with low interest rates and high levels of public debt, thus limiting the ability of policymakers to fight the next recession. Whether new fiscal stimulus programs would be jeopardized by these already heavy...
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regions, coupled with increased expenditure demands, led to substantial state budget deficits. State fiscal institutions, such … as "no deficit carryover" rules and tax and expenditure limitations, appear to have real effects on the speed and nature …
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We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes...
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government's future expenditures, including the servicing of its outstanding official debt, be covered by its government's future … receipts when measured in present value. The difference between the present value of a country's future expenditures and its … that the Russia's energy resources are finite, whereas its expenditure needs are not. Moreover, Russia is aging and facing …
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, average public debt-GDP ratios decline as the variability of revenues increases, primary balances and current expenditures … variability of public expenditures exceeds that of private expenditures by a wide margin. This paper proposes a model of a small … expenditure and debt plans given shocks to output and revenues, and private agents make optimal consumption and asset accumulation …
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This paper analyses the effects of fiscal policies on rates of interest and wealth in the world economy. Uncertainty concerning the length of life yields an equilibrium in which private and social rates of discount differ and budget deficits exert real effects. It is shown that a current budget...
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We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
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are: i) on average fiscal expansions are the results of increases in expenditures, particularly of transfer programs …
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This paper offers a possible explanation for the existence of continual government budget deficits such as experienced in a number of industrialized countries in recent years. Based on the assumption that higher tax rates cause more intensive tax-aversion behavior (tax avoidance and tax...
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To explain the fact that government spending and tax policy are procyclical in emerging and developing countries, we develop a model for the joint behavior of optimal tax rates and government spending over the business cycle. Our set-up relies on financial frictions, which have been shown to be...
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