The Political Economy of Underfunded Municipal Pension Plans
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- Jeffrey Brinkman & Daniele Coen-Pirani & Holger Sieg, 2016. "The Political Economy of Underfunded Municipal Pension Plans," NBER Working Papers 22321, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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- 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-2015-08-13 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-DGE-2015-08-13 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-POL-2015-08-13 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2015-08-13 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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