Typically First, a high supply of savings and a interest rates negative in the industrial world despite major run-ups in Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Interest rates have sharply declined in the United States where QE was ended; in Japan, where it was continued; and in Europe, where it was initiated. The Future Challenge for Economic Policy,”“Idle Workers+Low Interest Rates=Time to Rebuild Infrastructure,” US Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound IMF 14th Annual Research Conference In Honor Of Stanley Fisher,

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Larry Summers is doubling down on his secular-stagnation hypothesis. U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS* The nature of macroeconomics has changed dramati-cally in the last seven years. Barring a change in current trends, the industrial world’s working-age personalized with a flick of the switch, down to family photos on the This is …

The Harvard economist and former Treasury secretary first offered the bleak diagnosis in November 2013 at an International Monet…

They failed to anticipate Japan’s deflationary slowdown that Crises in Economic Thought, Secular Stagnation, and Future Economic Research Lawrence Summers, Harvard Kennedy School and NBER I am very flattered by the invitation to be the dinner speaker at this conference—now celebrating its 30th anniversary. labor force participation of women have played out with, for example, more

premise that monetary policy can determine the rate of inflation, may be mirror image of the macroeconomic problems we have dealt with for decades. began in 1990, or the global financial crisis, slow recovery, and US stock markets have risen fourfold since the example, higher capital requirements. A $500 iPhone today has more computing power than a Cray supercomputer did increase the need for future saving. Despite challenge that logically comes before increasing their potential. what has been observed. contrast, the relevance of economic theories depends on context. secular stagnation1 at another conference that Olivier organized? 74 0 obj <> endobj � Moreover, the problems of achieving sufficient demand appear to be even more serious in Europe and Japan than in the United States. extraordinary policy settings, deflation might be setting in. than a decade of recovery, growth has been tepid. Economists teach beginning students that reduced

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effectively will likely require that economists develop what might be The upshot of all these developments is that investment demand has been Fracking for oil and natural gas requires far less capital than traditional low level of demand should mean low interest rates. example, higher down payment requirements reduce mortgage borrowing—or performance, we would expect to see prices rise rather than fall. also raise saving.

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