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Debt-sharing and secession : a generational accounting approach

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  • CATTOIR, Philippe
  • DOCQUIER, Frédéric

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This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partioning, 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 in the steady growth framework in the absence of initial regional debt. An application of our criterion to the Belgian case offers striking results.

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  • CATTOIR, Philippe & DOCQUIER, Frédéric, 2000. "Debt-sharing and secession : a generational accounting approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2000003, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
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    2. André Decoster & Xavier Flawinne & Pieter Vanleenhove, 2014. "Generational accounts for Belgium: fiscal sustainability at a glance," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 41(4), pages 663-686, November.

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    Keywords

    debt-sharing; public debt; secession; generational accounting; distributive neutrality.;
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    JEL classification:

    • 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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