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savings as well as a crisis-induced reduction in investment. Finishing the balance sheet recession can lead to a higher …The low interest rate environment is less due to monetary policy and more due to global trends in investment and … interest rate level in the medium-run through higher investment. A higher natural real interest rate would enable central banks …
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We extend a simple Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with segmented financial markets to include financial repression and examine its impact on the transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policies. In our model, financial repression arises as the government...
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shocks and higher investment in response to government spending. Sticky discount rates imply that inflation has real effects … expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected inflation directly lower firms' real … discount rates and thereby raise real investment. We analyze the macroeconomic implications of sticky discount rates using a …
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solutions, all have failed as these attempts implicitly assume perfectly-correct inflation statistics. Examining these … assumptions, we discover that not only are the inflation numbers materially flawed, but more so, there are significant incentives … for government entities to under-report inflation. With this, we find that to explain the Equity Premium Puzzle, inflation …
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aggregate demand gains momentum. If inflation also has inertia, the central bank still overheats the economy during the low …
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Many explanations for the decline in real interest rates over the last 30 years point to the role that population aging or rising income inequality plays in increasing the long-run aggregate demand for assets. Notwithstanding the importance of such factors, the starting point of this paper is to...
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aggregate demand gains momentum. If inflation also has inertia, the central bank still overheats the economy during the low …
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Post Keynesian stagnation theory argues that slower population growth dampens consumption and investment. A New …
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The neutral rate of interest is an important concept and communication tool for central banks. We develop a small open economy model with overlapping generations to study the determinants of the neutral real rate of interest in a small open economy. The model captures domestic factors such as...
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The neutral rate of interest is an important concept and communication tool for central banks. We develop a small open economy model with overlapping generations to study the determinants of the neutral real rate of interest in a small open economy. The model captures domestic factors such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232633