A Decade of Debt

Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, Mon, 03/28/2011

With public debt in the US higher than it's been since 1945 and private debt burgeoning, governments are panicking about the impact of debt overhang on growth. In CEPR DP8310, Reinhart and Rogoff argue that governments have increasingly resorted to undercover restructuring by using the tools of "financial repression" that characterized the Bretton Woods era. If states continue to ignore or distort their debt problems, the authors predict, their bond markets could become ever more repressed.

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URL:  www.cepr.org/DP8310

Topics:  Macroeconomic policy

Tags:  growth, crisis, debt, default, financial repression

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