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'Bystanders' to the Holocaust : a re-evaluation
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ISBN: 0714682438 1315810174 1317791754 9781317791751 9781317791744 1317791746 0714652709 9780714652702 9780714682433 9781315810171 9781317791737 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,


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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Debt Crisis and Management
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ISBN: 1475590229 9781475590227 1475590180 9781475590180 1475590199 Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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The initial government debt-to-GDP ratio and the government’s commitment play a pivotal role in determining the welfare-optimal speed of fiscal consolidation in the management of a debt crisis. Under commitment, for low or moderate initial government debt-to-GPD ratios, the optimal consolidation is very slow. A faster pace is optimal when the economy starts from a high level of public debt implying high sovereign risk premia, unless these are suppressed via a bailout by official creditors. Under discretion, the cost of not being able to commit is reflected into a quick consolidation of government debt. Simple monetary-fiscal rules with passive fiscal policy, designed for an environment with “normal shocks”, perform reasonably well in mimicking the Ramsey-optimal response to one-off government debt shocks. When the government can issue also long-term bonds–under commitment–the optimal debt consolidation pace is slower than in the case of short-term bonds only, and entails an increase in the ratio between long and short-term bonds.

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