Debt intolerance and the 90 per cent debt threshold: two impossibility theorems

Economy and Society

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 521-542

  Lysandrou, Photis ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

90 per cent debt threshold; debt intolerance; government bonds

Indexed keywords

DEBT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; G-7 COUNTRY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; TRADE RELATIONS;

EID: 84889568192     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2012.760346     Document Type: Article

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