Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55840 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
W.E.P. - Würzburg Economic Papers No. 87
Publisher: 
University of Würzburg, Department of Economics, Würzburg
Abstract: 
We analyze the influence of the fiscal position on the transmission of government spending shocks in a New Keynesian model. We find that once we allow for positive levels of government debt in the steady state, the sign and the size of the fiscal multiplier depend strongly on the horizon at which the multiplier is evaluated. While the long-run effect of a fiscal policy innovation is typically of a similar order of magnitude as in Gali et al. (2007), short-run multipliers differ substantially. The reason for this non-monotonic behavior is the interaction between the dynamics of the inflation rate and the debt level in real terms, which is absent in standard models in which government debt is restricted to be equal to zero in the steady state.
Subjects: 
fiscal multiplier
New Keynesian model
government debt
inflation
JEL: 
E31
E62
H63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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