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Deutsche Bundesbank

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Key number
1.48
Short-term financed impact output multiplier. European Central Bank p.10
Key number
35 basis points
Regulatory cost of unsecured interbank lending for lenders. European Central Bank p.3

Debt maturity and government spending multipliers

Research paperEuropean Central BankNovember 202646 pages

Empirical analysis of post-war US data demonstrates that government spending shocks financed with short-term debt yield significantly higher output multipliers than those financed with long-term debt, typically exceeding unity under short-term financing.