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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298514203321

Autore

Greiner Alfred

Titolo

Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth [[electronic resource] ] : Theory and Empirics / / by Alfred Greiner, Bettina Fincke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-09348-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

330

330.1

336

338.9

Soggetti

Economic growth

Macroeconomics

Development economics

Public finance

Economic theory

Political economy

Economic Growth

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Development Economics

Public Economics

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

International Political Economy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Sustainable Public Debt: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Debt and Growth: A Basic Endogenous Growth Model -- Productive Government Spending, Public Debt and Growth -- Government Debt and Human Capital Formation -- Debt and Growth: Empirical Evidence -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Public debt has become a severe problem for a great many economies. While the effects of tax policies on the allocation of resources are



readily derived, the mechanisms that make public deficits and debt influence the economy are not so easily understood. This book elaborates on the effects of public debt starting from the intertemporal budget constraint of the government. It is shown under which conditions a government can stick to the intertemporal budget constraint, and, then, demonstrated how public debt affects the growth process and welfare in market economies. The effects are derived for models with complete labor markets as well as taking into account labor market imperfections. The focus in this book is on fiscal policy issues, but it also deals with monetary policy aspects. The theoretical analysis is complemented with empirical time series analyses on debt sustainability and with panel studies dealing with the relationship between public debt and economic growth.