Government Debt : A Key Role in Financial Intermediation /

The literature on optimal fiscal policy finds that highly volatile real returns on government debt, for example through surprise inflation, have very low costs. However, policymakers are almost always very apprehensive of this option. The paper discusses evidence concerning features of developing co...

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Autor principal: Kumhof, Michael
Outros Autores: Tanner, Evan
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/057
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF