Government Debt, Life-Cycle Income, and Liquidity Constraints: Beyond Approximate Ricardian Equivalence

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 374-382

  Faruqee, Hamid ^a   Laxton, Douglas ^a   Symansky, Steven ^a  

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EID: 0346446028     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2307/3867565     Document Type: Article

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