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more likely - is higher, as is the probability of a crisis, the greater the level of favoritism. If the favored group is … important enough to be pivotal when society votes on the entitlement level, favoritism also leads to greater public expenditure …
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more likely - is higher, as is the probability of a crisis, the greater the level of favoritism. If the favored group is … important enough to be pivotal when society votes on the entitlement level, favoritism also leads to greater public expenditure …
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more likely - is higher, as is the probability of a crisis, the greater the level of favoritism. If the favored group is … important enough to be pivotal when society votes on the entitlement level, favoritism also leads to greater public expenditure …
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Traditional approaches use balance sheet assessment to forecast bank rescue costs and often underestimate real costs. Thus, governments commit to bailouts without credible forecasts of costs, which can lead to serious fiscal issues. We propose a new approach based on distributional information...
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Zilibotti (2012) to incorporate wage inequality within each country. In this extended framework, we present conflict within and … across generations over fiscal policy and show that a low-inequality country realizes tight fiscal policy with low public … debt accumulation, whereas a high-inequality country experiences loose fiscal policy with high public debt accumulation …
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The fiscal policy response to the consequences of the financial and economic crisis consisted either in adopting expansionary policies to stimulate the aggregate demand, or in promoting fiscal consolidation programs designed to restore the sustainability of the public finances. This paper...
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Episodes of debt accumulation have been a recurrent feature of the global economy over the past fifty years. Since 2010, emerging and developing economies have experienced another wave of historically large and rapid debt accumulation. Similar past debt buildups have often ended in widespread...
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This paper surveys the sovereign debt literature and summarizes the political economy trade-offs of seven distinct mechanisms for achieving debt sustainability. Two mechanisms – financial aid and asset exchange – are often underemphasized or entirely overlooked even though they can play an...
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