repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an avalanche of foreign capital inflows that would threaten inflation and asset …

We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … accommodative monetary policy and deficit spending—generate a debt-financed short-run boom at the expense of indebted demand in the … future. When demand is sufficiently indebted, the economy gets stuck in a debt-driven liquidity trap, or debt trap. Escaping …

This paper aims to show why Irving Fisher's own data on interest rates and inflation in New York, London, Paris, Berlin … changes in inflation, not even in the long run. In Fisher's data, interest rates have more persistence than inflation and … change less than inflation over time. The Fisher effect is a misnomer unless it is taken to refer to what Fisher actually …

aggregate demand gains momentum. If inflation also has inertia, the central bank still overheats the economy during the low …

. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated macroeconomic issues in recent times, the …

when investment is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial … the investment is debt-financed, the interest payment additionally reduces the corporate tax base. The research findings … optimum debt maturity tends to correlate positively with the corporate tax rate but negatively with the interest rate. In the …

is stronger for countries with higher average inflation or debt. …For a sample of sixteen OECD countries over the period 1980-2007 we show that, for given debt-GDP ratio, an increase in … the maturity of the public debt by one year lowers its long-term interest rate by around 20-30 basis points. This effect …