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Other authors / contributors: | Callegari, Giovanni, author.
Guerreiro, Julia, author.
Kramer, Charles Frederick, distributor.
International Monetary Fund.
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ISBN: | 1462388906 9781462388905 1455237116 9781455237111 1283565269 9781283565264 9786613877710 6613877719 1455225029 9781455225026 9781455227075 1455227072
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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).
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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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Other form: | 1-4552-2707-2
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