Is Government Debt a Vamp? Public Finance in a Transylvanian Growth Model
Mardi | 2015-09-22 Sully 5 de 16h à 17h20 Patrick VILLIEU – Maxime MENUET The vampire metaphor has been used in numerous papers describing biological interactions between two populations. Such a metaphor translates well to a standard endogenous growth model with public debt. Public debt can be assimilated to a Vamp, whose blood-sucking behavior corresponds to the harmful effect of the debt burden on productive public expenditures. However, the complete destruction of public debt in the long-run is shown to […]