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The impact of government debt on the long-run natural real interest rate – a quantitative evaluation

Christoph WinterDepartment of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1429-1434 | Published online: 10 Mar 2017

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