The Behavior of U. S. Public Debt and Deficits
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 113 (3) , 949-963
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355398555793
Abstract
How do governments react to the accumulation of debt? Do they take corrective measures, or do they let the debt grow? Whereas standard time series teKeywords
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