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Financial composition of the public deficit

ABSTRACT

Starting from this hypothesis this paper criticizes the conventional theory about the public deficit and presents an alternative model of macroeconomic analysis of the effects of the public deficit emphasizing its internal composition between interests and real expenditures.

KEYWORDS:
Public debt; debt interest

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