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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Hlavní autor: Kumhof, Michael
Další autoři: Tanner, Evan
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/057
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF