On the irrelevance of government debt when taxes are distortionary

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 299-304

  Bassetto, Marco ^a,b   Kocherlakota, Narayana ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortionary taxes; Government debt; Ricardian equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842269020     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2002.12.001     Document Type: Article

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