Long-Term Tendencies in Budget Deficits and Debt

IMF Working Papers, December 1, 1995

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Authors: Michael Mussa, Paul R Masson
Presentation: Paper was presented at a symposium, "Budget Deficits and Debt: Issues and Options," held at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on September 1-2, 1995, and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Publication date: December 1, 1995
Series: Working Paper No. 1995/128
Issue: 128
Volume: 1995

Subject: Expenditure, Government debt management, Health care spending, Inflation, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, budget deficit, central government, debt accumulation, Eastern Europe, federal deficit, GDP ratio, government benefit, government debt, Government debt management, government indebtedness, government policy, government spending, Health care spending, industrial country, Inflation, Middle East, real value, Western Hemisphere, WP

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IMF Working Paper No. 1995/128, "Long-Term Tendencies in Budget Deficits and Debt" by Michael Mussa and Paul R Masson (December 1, 1995).