This study analyzes the effect of individual finances (specifically creditworthiness and severely delinquent debt) on … is utilized in an instrumental variables design. The possibility of the reverse causality of bad health causing debt and … 2005 residence. Worsening creditworthiness and increases in severely delinquent debt are found to lead to increases in …

's government uses linear taxation to fund exogenous expenditures and uses public debt to inter-temporally allocate tax distortions …. We characterize a class of environments in which the tax on labor goes to zero in the long run, while the tax on capital … sovereign debt constraints. The front loading of labor taxes allows the economy to build a large (aggregate) debt position in …