Does Ricardian Equivalence Hold When Expectations Are Not Rational?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1259-1283

  Evans, George W ^a,b   Honkapohja, Seppo ^c   Mitra, Kaushik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Bank of Finland ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Expectations; Ramsey model; Ricardian equivalence; Taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866533230     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2012.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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