The effects of a money-financed fiscal stimulus
Jordi Galí
Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Abstract:
I analyze the effects of a money-financed fiscal stimulus and compare them with those resulting from a conventional debt-financed stimulus. I study the effects of both a tax cut and an increase in government purchases, with and without a binding zero lower bound (ZLB) 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. Nominal rigidities are shown to play a major role in shaping those effects.
Keywords: seignorage; government spending; fiscal multiplier; helicopter drop. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E52 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09, Revised 2019-07
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