Scale-Invariant Properties of Public-Debt Growth
@article{Petersen2010ScaleInvariantPO, title={Scale-Invariant Properties of Public-Debt Growth}, author={Alexander Michael Petersen and Boris Podobnik and Davor Horvatic and Harry Eugene Stanley}, journal={ERN: Economic Growth (European Economics) (Topic)}, year={2010} }
Public debt is one of the important economic variables that quantitatively describes a nation's economy. Because bankruptcy is a risk faced even by institutions as large as governments (e.g. Iceland), national debt should be strictly controlled with respect to national wealth. Also, the problem of eliminating extreme poverty in the world is closely connected to the study of extremely poor debtor nations. We analyze the time evolution of national public debt and find "convergence": initially…
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