Financial globalization and the raising of public debt
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During the last three decades the stock of government debt has increased in most developed countries. During the same period international capital markets have been liberalized. In this paper we develop a two-country political economy model with incomplete markets and endogenous government borrowing and show that countries choose higher levels of public debt when financial markets are internationally integrated.
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