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The US Fiscal Crisis: The Debt Sustainability Delusion and the True Costs of Fiscal Austerity

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  • Enrique G. Mendoza, 2013. "The US Fiscal Crisis: The Debt Sustainability Delusion and the True Costs of Fiscal Austerity," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 14(02), pages 25-31, August.
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    1. Cascio, Iolanda Lo, 2015. "A wavelet analysis of US fiscal sustainability," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 33-37.

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    Keywords

    Finanzmarktkrise; Finanzpolitik; Konjunktur; Öffentlicher Haushalt; Öffentliche Schulden; USA;
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    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O51 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada

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