Saving Constraints, Inequality, and the Credit Market Response to Fiscal Stimulus

Jorge Miranda-Pinto, Daniel Murphy, Kieran James Walsh and Eric Young

Working Papers Central Bank of Chile from Central Bank of Chile

Abstract: We document substantial heterogeneity in the interest rate response to fiscal stimulus (IRRF) across OECD economies. The IRRF is negative in half of the OECD countries, and it declines with income inequality. To interpret this evidence we de-velop a model in which moderately low-income households take on debt to maintain a consumption threshold (saving constraint). Now debt-burdened, these households use additional income to deleverage. In more unequal economies with more saving constrained households, increases in government spending tighten credit conditions less (relax credit conditions more), leading to smaller increases (larger declines) in the interest rate.

Date: 2021-10
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