The Motives to Borrow /

Governments issue debt for good and bad reasons. While the good reasons-intertemporal tax-smoothing, fiscal stimulus, and asset management-can explain some of the increases in public debt in recent years, they cannot account for all of the observed changes. Bad reasons for borrowing are driven by po...

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Huvudupphovsman: Fatas, Antonio
Övriga upphovsmän: Ghosh, Atish, Panizza, Ugo, Presbitero, Andrea
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/101
Länkar:Full text available on IMF