Voting Twice
A New Approach to the Limitation of Government Debt Accumulation
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Gersbach, Hans
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2017-06-09T18:54:58Z
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2017-06-09T18:54:58Z
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2009-06-17
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/45681
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How might we limit the accumulation of public debt by democratic governments? This column proposes “voting twice" – first for a deficit ceiling and second for a particular budget. Such a procedure might strike a balance between flexibility and the commitment to refrain from loading debt onto future generations.
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en
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Centre for Economic Policy Research
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Voting Twice
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Other Publication
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A New Approach to the Limitation of Government Debt Accumulation
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VOX CEPR's Policy Portal
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London
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published
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02120 - Dep. Management, Technologie und Ökon. / Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.::03729 - Gersbach, Hans / Gersbach, Hans
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ETH Zürich::00002 - ETH Zürich::00012 - Lehre und Forschung::00007 - Departemente::02120 - Dep. Management, Technologie und Ökon. / Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.::03729 - Gersbach, Hans / Gersbach, Hans
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http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3660
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2017-06-09T18:55:42Z
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ECIT
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