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motive for expectation management that aims towards the manipulation of equilibrium prices of government debt in a favorable …
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We examine the impact of different degrees of fiscal feedback on debt in an economy with nominal rigidities where …
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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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. Lavoie (1995) has proposed a Kaleckian ?Minsky-Steindl-model? of distribution and growth, incorporating the effects debt and … debt services have on short and long run capital accumulation. This attempt, however, can be extended because neither has … effects of debt and debt services are explicitly introduced, the effects of interest rate variations on the short and the long …
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External finance is considered to devide into equity and debt finance. The criteria established to distinguish the two …
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This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
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Most US credit card holders revolve high-interest debt, often combined with substantial (i) asset accumulation by …
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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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a second serious recession in 2011 because of the sovereign debt crisis. The reaction of Italian governments was mild at … the beginning and more convinced since the start of the sovereign debt crisis in 2011. Adopted policies contributed to … Italian economy to reduce the level of public debt and to return to sustained economic growth, which has been very weak for …
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This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt … for a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and economic growth, once we account … negative long-run effects of public debt build-up on output growth. Provided that public debt is on a downward trajectory, a …
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