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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?

   Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1974

   Barro asks whether households treat government bonds as net wealth, and examines how finite lives, imperfect capital markets, bond liquidity monopoly and tax uncertainty affect the answer.

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   1. UncheckedWhere private capital markets are imperfect, government debt adds to net wealth if the state lends more efficiently at the margin than private lenders do.“In the presence of imperfect private capital markets, government debt issue will increase net wealth if the government is more efficient, at the margin, than the private market in carrying out the loan process.”
   2. UncheckedIf the government has monopoly power over bond "liquidity services", issuing public debt would raise households' net wealth, according to Barro's analysis.“Similarly, if the government has monopoly power in the production of bond "liquidity services," then public debt issue will raise net wealth.”