Long-Term Borrowing and Intergenerational Redistribution of Public Debt. The Case of Central and Eastern EU Member States

• Authors: Tomasz Uryszek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the burden on the future generation resulting from the need to repay public debt in Central and Eastern EU Member States. The main theme is accompanied by the following research hypothesis: imbalance in public finances makes public authorities use long-term government securities more intensely. The hypothesis was verified based on the analysis of statistical data from Eurostat, European Central Bank and the OECD.

Keywords

EN

public debt; term structure; long-term government securities

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 197-210

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-03-13

Contributors

author

Tomasz Uryszek

• University of Lodz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eam-2015-0013