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Koen Jochmans
vol. 36, décembre 2020, p. 1159–1166
Freek Van Gils (Tilburg University)
Toulouse, 2020
Andrey Fradkin (Boston University)
Miguel Godinho de Matos (Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics)
Shota Ichihashi (Bank of Canada)
Simon Anderson (University of Virginia)
André Veiga (Imperial College London)
Imke Reimers
Xu Zhang (London Business School)
George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard et Harris Dellas
n° 11-1170, décembre 2020
We study optimal policy in an economy in which public debt is used as collateral or liquidity buffer. Issuing more public debt raises welfare by easing the underlying financial friction; but this easing lowers the liquidity premium and increases the government’s cost of borrowing. These...