The Political Economy of Underfunded Municipal Pension Plans
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- Holger Sieg & Daniele Coen-Pirani & Jeffrey Brinkman, 2015. "The Political Economy of Underfunded Municipal Pension Plans," 2015 Meeting Papers 345, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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JEL classification:
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
- R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2016-06-18 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-MAC-2016-06-18 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2016-06-18 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2016-06-18 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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