A Buffer-Stock Model for the Government : Balancing Stability and Sustainability /

A fiscal reaction function to debt and the cycle is built on a buffer-stock model for the government. This model inspired by the buffer-stock model of the consumer (Deaton 1991; Carroll 1997) includes a debt limit instead of the Intertemporal Budget Constraint (IBC). The IBC is weak (Bohn, 2007), a...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Fournier, Jean-Marc
Formaat: Tijdschrift
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Reeks:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/159
Online toegang:Full text available on IMF