Fiscal Policy in a Financial Crisis: Standard Policy versus Bank Rescue Measures
研究了金融危机期间政府对银行的大规模救助对宏观经济的影响，发现银行救助对实际经济活动有显著正面效应，其乘数与常规财政支出乘数相当。
A key dimension of fiscal policy during the financial crisis was massive government support for the banking system. The macroeconomic effects of that support have, so far, received little attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap, using a quantitative dynamic model with a banking sector. Our results suggest that state aid for banks may have a strong positive effect on real activity. Bank state aid multipliers are in the same range as conventional fiscal spending multipliers. Support for banks has a positive effect on investment, while a rise in government purchases crowds out investment.