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Anton Brender et al., « Should We Be Concerned about the High Burden of Public Debt? Lessons from the Japanese Case », Revue d'économie financière, ID : 10670/1.22462e...
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The steady rise in Japanese public debt is regularly a concern. Its role in managing the macroeconomic equilibrium – preventing growth from being stifled by an excess of private saving – is more rarely stressed. As long as private agents continue to want to spend less than they earn and to accumulate debt claims, it is futile to hope for a rapid fall in Japan’s public debt to GDP ratio. Still, the government faces a major challenge: being able to generate budget surpluses tomorrow if private agents decide to spend more than they earn by drawing on the deposits they have accumulated.Classification JEL: H50, H54, H60, H62, H63, H68.
