Fiscal Policy in a Tractable Liquidity‐Constrained Economy

Edouard Challe and Xavier Ragot

Economic Journal, 2011, vol. 121, issue 551, 273-317

Abstract: We analyse the effects of fiscal expansions when public debt is used as liquidity by the private sector. Aggregate shocks are introduced into an incomplete-market economy where heterogenous agents face occasionally binding borrowing constraints and store wealth to smooth out idiosyncratic income fluctuations. Debt‐financed increases in spending facilitate self‐insurance by bond holders and may crowd in private consumption. They also loosen the borrowing constraints faced by firms, thereby raising labour demand and possibly the real wage. Whether private consumption and wages rise or fall ultimately depends on the relative strengths of the liquidity and wealth effects that arise following the shock.

Date: 2011
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Working Paper: Fiscal policy in a tractable liquidity - constrained economy (2011)
Working Paper: Fiscal Policy in a Tractable Liquidity-Constrained Economy (2010)
Working Paper: Fiscal policy in a tractable liquidity-constrained economy (2010)
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