Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - 2007
This paper proposes a dynamic politico-economic theory of debt, government finance and expenditure. Agents have … Equilibrium of the dynamic voting game. If taxes do not distort labor supply, the economy progressively depletes its resources … consumption, the less debt is accumulates. We extend the analysis to redistributive policies and political shocks. The theory …