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Larry Summers’ interest rate conundrum. CEPS Hi-level Brief, 16 January 2014

Mayer, Thomas (2014) Larry Summers’ interest rate conundrum. CEPS Hi-level Brief, 16 January 2014. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    Larry Summers has attracted much attention recently for invoking old theories of secular stagnation to explain the persistence of low interest rates in the recent past. The German economist Carl Christian von Weizsäcker has pointed to a retirement savings glut as the cause for low rates. In the view of Thomas Mayer, however, as expressed in this High-Level Brief, these theses lack both theoretical and empirical support and he offers as an alternative explanation the fall-out from the recent credit boom-bust cycle.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > monetary policy
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > CEPS High-Level Briefs
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 16 Dec 2014 14:20
    Number of Pages: 9
    Last Modified: 16 Dec 2014 14:20
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/58497

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