The behavior of U.S. States’ debts and deficits

Do governments satisfy an intertemporal budget constraint? This paper uses a panel of U.S. state data from 1978-1998 to empirically investigate whether primary surpluses respond to rising debt/GDP ratios. Instead of relying solely on the time-series characteristics of various data series, the paper...

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Main Author: Maria Cornachione Kula
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Public Finance 2019-09-01
Series:Public Sector Economics
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Online Access: http://www.pse-journal.hr/upload/files/pse/2019/3/3.pdf