This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...

This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...

Im Rahmen eines klassischen keynesianischen Modells kommt Hans-Werner Sinn zu dem Ergebnis, dass kreditfinanzierte Staatsausgaben den induzierten Steuermehrertrag immer übertreffen. Permanente Restdefizite ließen daher die Schulden sowohl absolut als auch im Verhältnis zum Sozialprodukt ins...

We analyze the influence of the fiscal position on the transmission of government spending shocks in a New Keynesian model. We find that once we allow for positive levels of government debt in the steady state, the sign and the size of the fiscal multiplier depend strongly on the horizon at...

Im Rahmen eines klassischen keynesianischen Modells kommt Hans-Werner Sinn zu dem Ergebnis, dass kreditfinanzierte Staatsausgaben den induzierten Steuermehrertrag immer übertreffen. Permanente Restdefizite ließen daher die Schulden sowohl absolut als auch im Verhältnis zum Sozialprodukt ins...

How should public debt be managed when uncertainty about the business cycle is widespread and debt levels are high, as in the aftermath of the last financial crisis? This paper analyzes optimal fiscal policy with ambiguity aversion and endogenous government spending. We show that, without...

We analyze the influence of the fiscal position on the transmission of government spending shocks in a New Keynesian model. We find that once we allow for positive levels of government debt in the steady state, the sign and the size of the fiscal multiplier depend strongly on the horizon at...

This paper studies the debt multiplier, that is the effects of a temporary and pure change in government debt on economic activity. Contrary to an infinitely-lived representative agent model, in an overlapping generations (OLG) framework output increases even after a temporary increase in debt...

We compute government spending multipliers for the Euro Area (EA) contingent on the interestgrowthdifferential, the so-called r-g. Whether the fiscal shock occurs when r-g is positive or negativematters for the size of the multiplier. Median estimates vary conditional on the specification, but...