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We study the dynamics of U.S. public debt in a parsimonious VAR. We find that including debt feedback ensures the … stationarity of debt while standard VARs excluding debt may imply an explosive debt path. We also find that the response of debt to … inflation increases debt while the same to interest rate decreases it. Positive shocks to growth and primary surplus …
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The real output deterioration, high fiscal deficits and increased sovereign debt burden represents key phenomena that …
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The real output deterioration, high fiscal deficits and increased sovereign debt burden represents key phenomena that …
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European Union member countries are currently exposed to negative implications of the economic and debt crisis … after the debt crisis contagion flooded Europe. In the paper we provide an overview of main trends in public budgets and … in cyclically adjusted primary balance on the sovereign debt ratio reduction. We also estimate VAR model to analyze …
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European Union member countries are currently exposed to negative implications of the economic and debt crisis … after the debt crisis contagion flooded Europe. In the paper we provide an overview of main trends in public budgets and … improvements in cyclically adjusted primary balance on the sovereign debt ratio reduction. We also estimate VAR model to analyze …
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Origins and implications of twin deficits occurrence in a large scale of countries seems to be a center of rigorous empirical as well as theoretical investigation for decades. The reality of persisting fiscal and current account deficits became obvious in many advanced as well as advancing,...
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Using a newly-developed data set, we analyze the effects of infrastructure investment on economic performance in Portugal. A vector-autoregressive approach estimates the elasticity and marginal products of twelve types of infrastructure investment on private investment, employment and output. We...
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This study investigates the effect of public debt on growth, interest rate, and sustaibility of public debt in a very … long-run growth. It makes public debt less sustainable when public debt is very large. This study also examine the effect … of investment subsidy financed by public debt. It hinder economic growth in the long-run although they affect posively on …
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In both developed and developing countries, there are basically two main sources of economic instability: exogenous shocks and inappropriate policies. Exogenous shock (terms-of-trade shocks, natural disasters and capital flow reversals) can throw an economy into disequilibrium and therefore...
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revenue to GDP and the ratio of debt to GDP, and (ii) an increase in the ratio of capital income tax revenue to GDP in …
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