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Accounting, politics, and public pensions

Steven Thornburg, Kirsten Rosacker  |  May 18, 2018

“Defined benefit pension plans offer politicians a convenient way to satisfy public employee demands while providing the means to defer budgeted cash payments and hide the accumulation of public debt from taxpayers. The authors describe how this plays out in practice and how accounting standards facilitate such activity. …”

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