How Ricardian Are We?

Jonathan Adams and Christian Matthes

No RWP 26-02, Research Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Abstract: Estimates with new time series methods suggest households act as if they will bear only a fraction of outstanding government debt.

Keywords: Ricardian equivalence; government debt; Bayesian estimation; Limited information; structural shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C32 E21 E62 E70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64
Date: 2026-03-12
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DOI: 10.18651/RWP2026-2

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