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Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Karlan, Dean - 2018

Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...

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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies

Leeper, Eric M. - 2011

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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Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy

Doi, Takero - 2011

analyze the sustainability of the fiscal policy. We pursue three approaches to examine the sustainability. First, we calculate …

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Fiscal Stability of High-Debt Nations Under Volatile Economic Conditions

Hall, Robert E. - 2013

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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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (Sam) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013

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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Game Over : Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Evans, Richard W. - 2014

Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify …

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What is a Sustainable Public Debt?

D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2015

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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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....

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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability

Gluzmann, Pablo Alfredo - 2018

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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