The Effects of a Money-Financed Fiscal Stimulus

Jordi Galí
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No 786, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: I analyze the effects of a fiscal stimulus financed through money creation. I study the effects of both a tax cut and an increase in government purchases, and compare them with those resulting from a conventional debt-financed stimulus, with and without a binding zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate. When the ZLB is not binding, a money-financed fiscal stimulus is shown to have much larger multipliers than a debt-financed fiscal stimulus. That difference in effectiveness persists, but is much smaller, under a binding ZLB. The analysis points to the key role of nominal rigidities in shaping those effects.

Keywords: government spending; seignorage; fiscal multipliers; helicopter drop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E52 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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