Government deficits in large open economies: the problem of too little public debt
Buiter, W.H. and Sibert, Anne (2016) Government deficits in large open economies: the problem of too little public debt. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2016 (2), ISSN 1864-6042.
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Abstract
Large and growing levels of public debt in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and the Euro Area raise new interest in the cross-country effects of a large open economy’s deficits. The authors consider a dynamic optimising model with costly tax collection and exogenously given public spending and initial debt. They ask whether the externalities associated with an individual country’s deficits are positive or negative. They characterise the path of taxes in the Nash equilibrium where policy makers act nationalistically and compare this outcome to the global optimal outcome.
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Item Type: | Article |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
Depositing User: | Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2016 16:31 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:25 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15607 |
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