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Rotten Parents and Disciplined Children: A Politico-Economic Theory of Public Expenditure and Debt

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  • Zheng Song

    (Fudan University)

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sufficiently large, the economy converges to a stationary debt level which is bounded away from the endogenous debt limit.

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2009 Meeting Papers with number 94.

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