When interest rates go low, should public debt go high?

J Brumm, X Feng, L Kotlikoff… - American Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
Is deficit finance free when real borrowing rates are routinely lower than growth rates?
Specifically, can the government make all generations better off by perpetually taking from …

Fiscal Policy and the Balance Sheet of the Private Sector

H Gersbach, JC Rochet… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper characterizes optimal fiscal policy in a growth model with incomplete markets,
heterogeneous agents (households and entrepreneurs), and idiosyncratic productivity risk …

Heterogeneous Agents, Public Debt, and Labor-Market Frictions

CR Bloise, V Fancio - Public Debt, and Labor-Market Frictions …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies the impact of public debt on vacancy creation, wages, and welfare using
a search-and-matching model with ex-ante heterogeneous agents in an incomplete markets …