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Government Debt and Capital Accumulation in the Blanchard-Cass-Yaari OLG Model

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Bo Sandemann Rasmussen () (Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
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It is shown that although government debt in principle has an ambiguous effect on the steady state capital stock in an OLG model of the Blanchard-Cass-Yaari variety, once stability of the steady state equilibrium is imposed there is an unambiguous negative relation between the level of government debt and the capital stock.

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Paper provided by School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus in its series Economics Working Papers with number 2000-14.

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Keywords: OLG model; government debt; stability; capital accumulation;

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E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical
H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management

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