Public debt, fiscal decisions and political power
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Keywords
fiscal policy; public debt; political power; political systems; property rights; institutional economics; macroeconomics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
- G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
- H0 - Public Economics - - General
- K0 - Law and Economics - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2014-11-12 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2014-11-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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