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

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  • Zheng Song
  • Kjetil Storesletten
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti

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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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Volume (Year): 80 (2012)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 2785-2803

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  • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
  • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
  • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
  • H62 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Deficit; Surplus
  • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt

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