Future rent-seeking and current public savings
The conventional wisdom is that politicians' rent-seeking motives increase public debt and deficits. This is because myopic politicians face political risk and prefer to extract political rents as early as possible. In this paper we study the determination of government debt and deficits in a d...
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Elsevier
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108289 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2760-451X |
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