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The social value of risk-free government debt

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Stacey Schreft ()
Bruce Smith

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Volume (Year): 4 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 (March)
Pages: 131-155
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Keywords: Government debt; Fiscal policy; Monetary policy; Portfolio allocation; E0; E4; E5; E6; H6; G1;

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  1. Joe Haslag & Antoine Martin, 2003. "Optimality of the Friedman Rule in Overlapping Generations Model with Spatial Separation," Working Papers 0306, Department of Economics, University of Missouri. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Joseph H. Haslag & Antoine Martin, 2005. "Optimality of the Friedman rule in an overlapping generations model with spatial separation," Staff Reports 225, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [Downloadable!]
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