Government Ponzi Games and Debt Dynamics Under Uncertainty /

We investigate the conditions for sustainability of debt roll-over schemes under uncertainty. In contrast with the requirements identified in recent research, we show that a necessary and sufficient condition for sustainability of such schemes is that the asymptotic interest rate on government debt...

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第一著者: Bartolini, Leonardo
その他の著者: Cottarelli, Carlo
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1991.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1991/126
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF
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