The Effects of Government Spending Under Limited Capital Mobility

Author/Editor:

Wenyi Shen ; Susan S. Yang

Publication Date:

May 1, 2012

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper studies the effects of government spending under limited international capital mobility, as featured by most developing countries. While external financing of government debt mitigates the crowding-out effect, it generates real appreciation, which contracts traded output and lowers the fiscal multiplier in the short run. The decline of the multiplier is larger when facing debt-elastic country risk premia. Also, government spending is more expansionary with more home bias in government purchases, more sectoral rigidities, and a less flexible exchange rate. Whether the twin-deficit hypothesis holds depends crucially on the extent to which government deficits are financed externally.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2012/129

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

May 1, 2012

ISBN/ISSN:

9781475503661/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2012129

Pages:

41

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