6. Debt overhang and debt forgiveness. Consider a small open economy that inherits a very large (effectively

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6. Debt overhang and debt forgiveness. Consider a small open economy that inherits a very large (effectively infinite) debt, D, which is scheduled to be paid off in the second period. The representative agent in the country has the utility function Ulog C+Blog C2. First-period endowment income is Y. Capital depreciates by 100 percent in produc- tion and second-period output is Y2 = 1, where I = K2 is date 1 investment. In the?

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Foundations Of International Macroeconomics

ISBN: 9780262150477

1st Edition

Authors: Maurice Obstfeld, Kenneth S. Rogoff

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