Reducing Public Debt under Dynamic Efficiency: Transitional Dynamics in Diamond's OLG Model

Karl Farmer

Atlantic Economic Journal, 2006, vol. 34, issue 2, 195-208

Abstract: Fiscal retrenchment is on the political agenda in the U.S. as well as in the EU. Utilizing Diamond's [ 1965 ] classic OLG growth model with internal debt, this paper focuses on temporarily adjusting the ratio of the primary budget surplus to GDP to achieve a target debt to GDP ratio lower than its initial level in the case of dynamic efficiency. The transitional dynamics of the debt to GDP and of the capital–output ratios are rigorously analyzed. It is shown that reducing the public debt to GDP ratio diminishes private capital intensity too. Copyright IAES 2006

Keywords: E62; H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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