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Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt

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  • Ricardo Nunes

    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

  • Davide Debortoli

    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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debt is sensibly increasing in the degree of political disagreement. Lower degree of commitment drives debt toward zero, while the frequency of political turnover does not produce relevant effects.

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2007 Meeting Papers with number 725.

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Cited by:
  1. Davide Debortoli & Ricardo Nunes, 2007. "Loose commitment," International Finance Discussion Papers 916, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  2. Davide Debortoli & Ricardo Nunes, 2008. "The macroeconomic effect of external pressures on monetary policy," International Finance Discussion Papers 944, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  3. Marina Azzimonti, 2012. "The dynamics of public investment under persistent electoral advantag," 2012 Meeting Papers 91, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  4. Nunes, Ricardo, 2008. "Delegation and Loose Commitment," MPRA Paper 11555, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  5. Campbell Leith & Simon Wren-Lewis, 2008. "Electoral uncertainty and the deficit bias in a New Keynesian Economy," Working Papers 2009_11, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow, revised Feb 2009.

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