Fiscal multipliers decrease nonlinearly as the private sector anticipates a higher likelihood of NIRP in the future. While the on-impact fiscal multiplier at the ZLB is above the unity without any expectation about NIRP in the future, it falls below 1 when the agents expect the economy to switch...

In this paper, we discuss the consequences of imperfect information about financial frictions on the macroeconomy. We rely on a New Keynesian DSGE model with a banking sector in which we introduce imperfect information about a limited enforcement problem. Bank managers divert resources and can...