A Note on Public Debt, Tax-Exempt Bonds, and Ponzi Games /

By issuing tax-exempt bonds, the government can incur debt and never pay back any principal or interest, even if the economy without public debt evolves on a dynamically efficient growth path. The welfare effects of such a Ponzi type borrowing scheme are mixed. The current young will unambiguously b...

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Autor principal: Wigger, Berthold
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/162
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF