From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule: Looking for an Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy
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Copyright 1999
ISBN 0226032132
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Copy CitationLaurence J. Kotlikoff, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Willi Leibfritz, Generational Accounting around the World (University of Chicago Press, 1999), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/generational-accounting-around-world/deficit-delusion-fiscal-balance-rule-looking-economically-meaningful-way-assess-fiscal-policy.
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Working Paper
Notwithstanding its widespread use as a measure of fiscal policy, the government deficit is not a well-defined concept...