Anknüpfend an die länderübergreifende Rezession Ende der achtziger Jahre, beschäftigt sich die Autorin mit den Auswirkungen von Verschuldung und Deflation auf die realen und monetären Größen einer Volkswirtschaft. Unterschiedliche Verhaltensweisen der relevanten Wirtschaftseinheiten, aber...

Investment booms and asset "bubbles" are often the consequence of heavily leveraged borrowing and speculations of persistent growth in asset demand. We show theoretically that dynamic interactions between elastic credit supply (due to leveraged borrowing) and persistent credit demand (due to...

We show that policy uncertainty about how the rising public debt will be stabilized accounts for the lack of deflation in the US economy at the zero lower bound. We first estimate a Markov-switching VAR to highlight that a zero-lower-bound regime captures most of the comovements during the Great...

We show that policy uncertainty about how the rising public debt will be stabilized accounts for the lack of deflation in the US economy at the zero lower bound. We first estimate a Markov-switching VAR to highlight that a zero-lower-bound regime captures most of the comovements during the Great...