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Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2146244448","title":"Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences","authors":["Joshua Aizenman","Brian Pinto","Kenneth Kletzer"],"authorCount":3,"venue":"National Bureau of Economic Research","year":2007,"type":"report","citedBy":107,"keywords":["economic growth","fiscal policy","cross-national differences","public debt","fiscal sustainability","government spending"],"topic":{"topic":"Fiscal Policies and Political Economy","subfield":"Economics and Econometrics","field":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance","domain":"Social Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-14T05:16:41.219Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"In the paper's model, with a binding debt limit or solvency-constrained borrowing, a more patient country grows faster but has a lower public-to-private capital ratio.","did":"The authors build a non-stochastic endogenous growth model with constant returns to scale in which public spending is a production input and the effective tax rate has a maximum. They compare spending on recurring flows with spending on public infrastructure.","gist":"The paper models growth in countries with limited tax and debt capacity, asking how public spending, borrowing and public capital should be set, and how such limits could explain lasting growth differences across countries.","meaning":"The claim describes a steady-state result in the model: how a country's patience (how much it values the future) relates to its growth and to the balance between public and private capital. It is offered as one way persistent growth differences across countries could arise from differing public finance constraints. If it holds, patience would shape both long-run growth and the mix of public and private capital when borrowing is limited.","findings":["Spending on recurring public flows, such as law enforcement, should be financed from current revenue, and the debt-to-GDP ratio should stay constant.","With public infrastructure, borrowing may help the economy reach its long-run growth path faster; with a binding tax constraint and a low initial public capital ratio, the government should buy public capital with debt to reach the sustainable ratio at once.","With a binding exogenous debt limit or solvency-constrained borrowing, a more patient country has higher steady-state growth but a lower public-to-private capital ratio."],"terms":[{"term":"steady-state growth rate","means":"The constant rate at which the economy grows in the long run once it has settled onto its balanced growth path."},{"term":"public-to-private capital ratio","means":"The value of the government's capital stock, such as infrastructure, relative to the capital stock held by the private sector."},{"term":"solvency constrained borrowing","means":"A limit on borrowing set by what a country can credibly repay, so that it would not choose to default, rather than by an outside cap."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-14T05:16:56.444Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-14T05:16:56.444Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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