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With public debt soaring across the world, a growing concern is whether current debt levels are a harbinger of fiscal crises, thereby restricting the policy space in a downturn. The empirical evidence to date is however inconclusive, and the true cost of debt may be overstated if interest rates...
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We endogenize the liquidity and the quality of private assets in a tractable incomplete-market model with heterogeneous … agents. The model decomposes the convenience yield of government bond into a "liquidity premium" (flight to liquidity) and a … and bond premiums, the model reveals that a sharp reduction in the quality, instead of the liquidity, of private assets …
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We study the role of fiscal policy in a complete markets model where the only friction is the nonpledgeability of human capital. We show that the competitive equilibrium is constrained inefficient, leading to too little risky investment. We also show that fiscal policy following a large negative...
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This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …
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The American system of political economy surely faces a fiscal crisis illustrated by but not limited to a trend of growing deficits and debt that cannot continue. What can’t continue won’t continue. In what fashion change occurs will be governed by forthcoming interactions between power and...
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Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...
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