Firms with greater liquidity needs benefit more from higher public debt – research

The positive effect of government debt on industry stems from domestic debt, not external debt, author finds

The Swiss National Bank

Capital-intensive industries and companies stand to benefit more from fiscal expansionary policies, a research paper published by the Swiss National Bank finds.

Government debt and growth: the role of liquidity, by Mathieu Grobéty, empirically investigates the liquidity channel of government debt on a sample of 28 manufacturing industries across 39 developing and developed countries.

The research concludes that industries with greater liquidity needs tend to grow disproportionately faster in

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