2017
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12384
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Collateral, Liquidity and Debt Sustainability

Abstract: We study Markov-perfect optimal fiscal policy in an economy with financial frictions and sovereign default in the form endogenously determined haircuts on outstanding debt. Government bonds facilitate tax smoothing but also provide collateral and liquidity services that mitigate financial frictions. A debt Laffer curve exists, which induces the government to issue bonds to a point where marginal debt has negative welfare effects. Debt positions in the order of magnitude of annual output remain sustainable desp… Show more

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“…In the context of capital structure, the concept of liquidity reflects the firm's ability to pay off short-term debts that are due with the available cash. A study by Corneli and Tarantino (2016), Korinek and Simsek (2016), Niemann and Pichler (2017) shows an empirical evidence that liquidity ratios negatively affected the firm's debt structure. It implied that the more available cash, the lower the debt ratio.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the context of capital structure, the concept of liquidity reflects the firm's ability to pay off short-term debts that are due with the available cash. A study by Corneli and Tarantino (2016), Korinek and Simsek (2016), Niemann and Pichler (2017) shows an empirical evidence that liquidity ratios negatively affected the firm's debt structure. It implied that the more available cash, the lower the debt ratio.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, a third branch integrates fiscal policy into dynamic models of endogenous sovereign default from the perspective of optimal taxation with or without commitment (see e.g. Adam and Grill, 2013;Pouzo and Presno, 2015;Niemann and Pichler, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Section 5.4 below provides further details on this point.5 In Gomez-Oliveros Duran,Niemann, and Pichler (2016), we analyze the role of fiscal policy in shaping the…”
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confidence: 99%
“…There have been a number of recent studies on the bank-sovereign link, mostly in non-stochastic models without reference to the business cycle. Within this literature, we are closest to Brutti (2011), Bolton &Jeanne (2011), andNiemann &Pichler (2013) who also account for a liquidity role for government bonds under sovereign risk. We extend this strand of literature by providing a quantification of the liquidity channel in a calibrated and simulated framework at the backdrop of the European sovereign debt crisis.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%