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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Главный автор: Kumhof, Michael
Другие авторы: Tanner, Evan
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/057
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF