Corporate Balance Sheet Adjustment

Bruegel looks at corporate deleveraging in this paper.

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(1) Quote sentence one
(2) Quote sentence two
(3) Quote sentence three
(4) Quote Shakespeare
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(4) A badly designed monetary ystem
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(2) Koo
(3) Mankiw
(4) Bill Mitchell
(5) Schauble
(6) Ken Rogoff

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IMF ECB DCU EU EMF RTE
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1971 1999 1815 1848 1916 2525

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