Do large industrialized economies pursue sustainable debt policies? A comparative study for Japan, Germany and the United States
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Public debt; Inter-temporal budget constraint; Penalized spline estimation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
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