Sources of borrowing and fiscal multipliers / by Romanos Priftis and Srecko Zimic.: FB3-5/2018-32E-PDF

"This paper finds that debt-financed government spending multipliers vary considerably depending on the location of the debt buyer. In a sample of 33 countries, we find that government spending multipliers are larger when government purchases are financed by issuing debt to foreign investors (non-residents), compared with when government purchases are financed by issuing debt to home investors (residents). A theoretical model (with flexible or sticky prices) shows that the location of the government creditor produces these differential responses to the extent that private investment is crowded out in each case. Increasing 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"--Abstract, p. ii.

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Department/Agency Bank of Canada.
Title Sources of borrowing and fiscal multipliers / by Romanos Priftis and Srecko Zimic.
Series title Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2018-32
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "July 2018."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-24).
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada, 2018.
Author / Contributor Priftis, Romanos.
Zimic, Srecko.
Description ii, 33 p. : col. charts.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2018-32E-PDF
Subject terms Public expenditures
National debt
Debt management
Econometric models
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