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

Evans (1991) has demonstrated that Blanchard's (1985) finite-horizon model obeys approximate Ricardian equivalence. We show that this result is determined largely by an unrealistic assumption that labor income grows monotonically over a consumer's entire lifetime. Introducing more realisti...

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Autore principale: Symansky, Steven
Altri autori: Faruqee, Hamid, Laxton, Douglas
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/140
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF