Deficits and Debt in Industrialized Democracies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781138821323
Subjects: Finance, public, developing countries; Debts, public; Budget deficits; Fiscal policy, developing countries
Description: Featuring the work of an international interdisciplinary team of scholars, this volume explains patterns of fiscal performance (persistent patterns of budget deficits and government debt) from the 1970s to the present across seven countries - France, Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and the United States. Employing a comparative case study approach, seldom employed in studies of fiscal performance, contributions illuminate the complex causal factors often overlooked by quantitative studies and advances our theoretical understanding of fiscal performance.