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- Philippe Cattoir
- Frederic Docquier
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Cattoir P. and Docquier F. (2004) Debt-sharing and secession: a generational accounting approach, Reg. Studies38, 293-303. This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dreze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic debt-sharing criterion which takes into account both the true debt future generations inherit and their contributive capacity. The equivalence with Dreze's static rule is only obtained on the balanced growth path, and in the absence of initial regional debt. An application of our criterion to the Belgian case offers striking results. Cattoir P. et Docquier F. (2004) Secession et partage de la dette publique: une approche par la comptabilite generationnelle, Reg. Studies38, 293-303. Ce papier analyse l'une des principales questions budgetaire posee en cas de secession ou de partage d'un Etat en plusieurs entites politiquement independantes, i.e. le partage de la dette publique nationale entre les regions. Partant de la condition de neutralite distributive proposee par Dreze, on developpe une extension dynamique de ce critere fondee sur la comptabilite generationnelle. Notre regle de partage prend en consideration la dette generationnelle leguee aux cohortes futures ainsi que leur capacite contributive attendue. L'equivalence avec la regle de Dreze n' est obtenue qu'en regime de croissance stable et en l'absence d' un endettement regional prealable a la scission. Une application de notre critere au cas de la Belgique offre des resultats interessants. Cattoir P. und Docquier F. (2004) Schuldenbeteiligung und Sezession: ein Generationen uberspannender Ansatz einer Bilanzbuchhaltung, Reg. Studies38, 293-303. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht eine der wichtigsten finanziellen Fragen, die sich aus der Sezession oder Teilung eines Landes ergeben, namlich die Beteiligung an der Verschuldung der offentlichen Hand. Die Autoren dehnen den Drezeschen Begriff des distributiven Neutralitatsverhaltnisses auf staatlicher Ebene dahingehend aus, dass sie die Generationen uberspannende Abrechnungstechnik benutzen und ein dynamisches Kriterion der Verschuldigungsbeteiligung vorschlagen, das sowohl die wahre Verschuldung, die zukunftige Generationen erben werden, als auch ihre Zahlungsfahigkeit in Betracht ziehen. Die Entsprechung der Brezeischen statischen Regel wird auch in Abwesenheit regionaler Verschuldung auf dem Wege gleichmassigen Wachstums erreicht. Eine Anwendung des Kriteriums auf den Fall Belgien fuhrt zu bemerkenswerten Ergebnissen. Cattoir P. y Docquier F. (2004) Division de la deuda publica y secesion: un enfoque de contabilidad generacional Reg. Studies38, 293-303. Este articulo investiga uno de los temas financieros mas importantes que emergen a partir de la secesion o de la division de un pais, denominado division de la deuda publica nacional. Ampliando la condicion de neutralidad distributiva de Dreze, utilizamos la tecnica de contabilidad generacional y proponemos un criterio dinamico de la division de la deuda publica que tiene en cuenta tanto la deuda real que heredan las generaciones futuras asi como su capacidad contributiva. La equivalencia con la regla estatica de Dreze solamente se obtiene en la trayectoria de crecimiento equilibrado, y en la ausencia de una deuda regional inicial. La aplicacion de nuestro criterio al caso belga ofrece resultados sorprendentes.
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Philippe Cattoir & Frederic Docquier, 2004.
"Debt-sharing and Secession: A Generational Accounting Approach,"
Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 293-303.
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RePEc:taf:regstd:v:38:y:2004:i:3:p:293-303
DOI: 10.1080/003434042000211060
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- H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
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