Debt, deficits, and age-specific mortality

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 300-312

  Faruqee, Hamid ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Government debt; Ricardian equivalence; Saving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038625451     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1094-2025(02)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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