Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/42209 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2010,22
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study the effects of government debt on macroeconomic aggregates in a non-Ricardian framework. We develop a micro-founded framework which combines time-varying markups, endogenous labor supply and overlapping generations based on infinitely-lived families. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a new transmission mechanism of public debt through the countercyclical markup movements induced by external deep habits. We analyze the effects of debt-financed tax cuts. We show that the interest rate rises, entailing higher markups, which imply a fall in employment and consumption. It is particularily noteworthy that, even without capital, a crowding out effect of government debt is obtained in the long run. However, the short-run expansionary effect of debt-financed tax cuts, which would eventually be expected in a non-Ricardian framework, fails to occur. This is due to our flexible-price framework. On the other hand, we show that incorporating sticky prices in our model causes debt-financed tax cuts to have a short-run expansionary effect while preserving the long-run contractionary effect.
Subjects: 
Wealth Effects
Fiscal Policy
Public Debt Shock
Deep Habits
Overlapping Generations
Monopolistic Competition
JEL: 
E63
E52
ISBN: 
978-3-86558-655-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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