• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Sources of borrowing and fiscal multipliers
  • Contributor: Priftis, Romanos [Author]; Zimic, Srecko [Author]
  • Published: Frankfurt a. M.: European Central Bank (ECB), 2018
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.2866/610515
  • Keywords: investment crowding in ; Fiscal multipliers ; sign restrictions ; small open-economy model ; F41 ; H3 ; debt financing ; structural vector autoregressions ; proxy-SVAR ; E62
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  • Description: This paper finds that debt-financed fiscal multipliers vary depending on the location of the debt buyer. In a sample of 33 countries fiscal multipliers are larger when government purchases are financed by issuing debt to foreign investors (non-residents), compared to when they are financed by issuing debt to home investors (residents). In a theoretical model, the location of the government creditor produces these differential responses through the extent that private investment is crowded out. International capital mobility of the resident private sector decreases the difference between the two types of financing both in the model and in the data.
  • Access State: Open Access