Schularick, Moritz; Wachtel, Paul - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2012
This paper tracks the development of sectoral saving and borrowing in the US economy over the past 50 years. We show that the financial imbalances that erupted in the financial crisis of 2008 were long in the making and preceded the emergence of global imbalances in the 2000s. The record low...