When is the Government Transfer Multiplier Large?

Transfers to individuals were a larger part of the 2009 U.S. stimulus package than government purchases. Using a two-agent New Keynesian model, this paper shows analytically that the multiplier on targeted transfers to financially constrained house...

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Main Authors: Giambattista, Eric, Pennings, Steven
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/786831504723306335/When-is-the-government-transfer-multiplier-large
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28361