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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   On the Determination of the Public Debt

   Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1979

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   1. Unchecked“A central proposition is that deficits are varied in order to maintain expected constancy in tax rates.”
   2. Unchecked“This behavior implies a positive effect on debt issue of temporary increases in government spending (as in wartime), a countercyclical response of debt to temporary income movements, and a one-to-one effect of expected inflation on nominal debt growth.”