Public debt and borrowing: Are governments disciplined by financial markets?

With the announcement to intervene on financial markets to restore the monetary transmission mechanism, the ECB has attenuated the pressure of the markets on the endangered peripheral countries of the Eurozone. Critics argue that by eliminating the markets’ disciplining interest mechanism, governmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicolas Afflatet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-12-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2016.1225346