The Recent Dynamics of Public Debt in the European Union: A Matter of Fundamentals or the Result of a Failed Monetary Experiment?
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Keywords
eurozone; macroeconomic imbalances; sovereign debt crisis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
- H6 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2013-04-13 (Central Banking)
- NEP-EEC-2013-04-13 (European Economics)
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