Government spending at the zero lower bound (ZLB) is not necessarily welfare enhancing, even when its output multiplier …

-agent New Keynesian model, this paper shows analytically that the multiplier on targeted transfers to financially constrained … households is (i) larger than the purchase multiplier if the zero lower bound (ZLB) binds, and (ii) is more sensitive to the …, such as when the zero lower bound binds, the extra inflation from lower supply boosts the multiplier. This result also …

economy is at the effective lower bound (ELB) or in normal times does not seem to matter for the size of the multiplier … average multiplier is about 1 in normal times and between 1.6 and 2.8 at the ELB, depending on the specification. The … difference between the two multipliers is distributed largely away from zero. More generally, the multiplier is inversely …