"An analysis of U.S. fiscal and generational imbalances : who will pay and how?" /

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Author / Creator:Batini, Nicoletta, author.
Corporate author / creator:International Monetary Fund, Corporate Author.
Imprint:[Washington, District of Columbia] International Monetary Fund, 2011.
©2011
Description:1 online resource (56 p.).
Language:English
Series:IMF Working Paper ; WP/11/72
IMF Working Papers.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12508797
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Other authors / contributors:Callegari, Giovanni, author.
Guerreiro, Julia, author.
Kramer, Charles Frederick, distributor.
International Monetary Fund.
ISBN:1462388906
9781462388905
1455237116
9781455237111
1283565269
9781283565264
9786613877710
6613877719
1455225029
9781455225026
9781455227075
1455227072
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2014).
Summary:This paper updates existing measures of the U.S. fiscal gap to include federal laws up to and including the mid-December 2010 federal fiscal stimulus. It then applies the methodology of generational accounting to establish how the burden of adjustment required to attain fiscal sustainability is shared across generations. We find that the U.S. fiscal and generational imbalances are large under plausible parametric assumptions, and, while not much affected by the financial crisis, they have not improved much by the passing of the Final Healthcare Legislation. We find that, under our baseline sce.
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