This paper examines the pricing of public debt in a quantitative macroeconomic model with government default risk. Default may occur due to a fiscal policy that does not preclude a Ponzi game. When a build-up of public debt makes this outcome inevitable, households stop lending such that the...

This paper uses a macroeconomic agent-based model building on Delli Gatti et al. (2011) to investigate the influence of agents' expectations and consumption choices on government expenditure multipliers. Following a thorough investigation of the size of the multiplier in the pre-existing...

This paper intends to discuss some problematic properties IS-LM and loanable funds together have when dealing with fiscal deficits. Many others have focused on its assumptions for criticism of IS-LM, but I will mainly focus on its fundamental modelling nature. To say more specifically, I will...

While Garrison's model has been mostly used to analyze, theoretically and empirically, business cycles, other potential venues have not been explored. The effects of fiscal policy is one of these applications. In this paper we show how Garrison's model can be used to analyze the effects of...