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competition, (ii) if fiscal policy is used to avoid inefficiency and maintain an optimal capital intensity, the required debt …
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which it provides sufficient liquidity to avoid financial constraints. In this case, capital-income taxes are zero in the … long run, and the returns on government debt and capital are equalized. However, if the fiscal space is insufficient, a … wedge opens between the rates of return on government debt and capital. In this case, optimal long-run tax policy is driven …
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We examine the impact of changes in national debt on the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) activity. Although increases in government debt reduces the acquisition likelihood, we find no evidence for the traditional interest rate mechanism. Instead, we document that upsurges in national debt...
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Using a firm-bank panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, we document that local public bank lending to municipalities crowds out private investment. Our results show how crowding out can happen in a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our...
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failed to capture the high returns to capital in these sectors, leading to relative economic decline …
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country with looming oil exhaustibility concerns. Our results highlight the risks to fiscal and capital sustainability of oil … relatively faster buildup of sustainable public capital and sustain higher non-oil growth without adversely affecting the debt … form of a misallocation of resources can hinder attainment of sustainable public capital and positive non-oil growth …
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The paper gives conditions for dynamic inefficiency of laissez-faire allocations in an overlapping-generations model with safe and risky assets. If the rate of population growth is certain, the conditions given depend only on how the rate of return on safe assets compares to the growth rate. If...
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Over 2010-2016, municipal debt in Germany crowded out private investment worth 1 percent of GDP. Forced to lend to municipalities by their statutes, local public banks compensated for declining municipal-debt yields by charging higher rates to firms in Germany's locally segmented credit markets....
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We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal adjustment on economic activity in 20 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009. We compare two approaches: the traditional approach based on changes in cyclically adjusted primary balance (CAPB) and the narrative approach based on historical records....
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capital enters production technologies, while public investment is subject to inefficiencies and absorptive capacity …. Fiscal adjustments through tax rates and government non-capital expenditures - which may be constrained by ceilings and …
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