scholarly journals Measuring the natural rate of interest: A note on transitory shocks

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt F. Lewis ◽  
Francisco Vazquez‐Grande
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rate ◽  
Transitory Shocks ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest

scholarly journals Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: A Note on Transitory Shocks

2018 ◽  
Vol 2017 (059r1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt F. Lewis ◽  
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Francisco Vazquez-Grande ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rate ◽  
Transitory Shocks ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest

scholarly journals Concluding Remarks on the Negative Natural Rate of Interest

2021 ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker ◽  
Hagen M. Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Public Debt ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Extrapolation Procedure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Secular Evolution ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
China Region ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe Great Divergence: The period of production T is not rising anymore. The “waiting period” Z is rising over time with the rising standard of living and rising life expectancy, and this is the case worldwide. In the interest of full employment, the public debt periodD has to compensate for this divergence: T = Z − D. Using an extrapolation procedure that we have developed and the available empirical data, we calculate total private wealth in the OECD plus China region. Net public debt already accounts for nearly half of private wealth today. COVID-19 increases the optimal steady-statepublic debt period. Both our theory and our empirical findings are increasingly confirmed by the work of other economists: for example, by Lawrence Summers’secular stagnation thesis and by the study of Jordà, Schularick and others on the secular evolution of private wealth.

scholarly journals The Natural Rate of Interest and the Optimal Rate of Interest in the Steady State

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker ◽  
Hagen M. Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Fundamental Equation ◽  
Optimal Rate ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Real Rate ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Steady State Rate ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest ◽  
State Rate

AbstractThe “natural rate of interest” is the hypothetical, risk-free real rate of interest that would obtain in a closed economy, if net public debt were zero. It is considerably less than the optimal steady-state rate of interest, which is equal to the system’s growth rate. This holds for a very general “meta-model.” The fundamental equation of capital theory holds on the optimal steady-state path: T = Z − D, where T is the overall economic period of production, Z is the representative private “waiting period” of consumers and D is the public debt ratio. Prosperity is at least 30% lower at the natural rate of interest than at the optimal rate.

scholarly journals Identification-Robust Estimates of the Canadian Natural Rate of Interest

2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Maral Kichian
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Robust Methods ◽  
Errors In Variables ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Real Rate ◽  
Point Estimates ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest ◽  
Best Fitting ◽  
Estimate Precision ◽  
Fitting Model

The natural rate of interest is an unobservable entity and its measurement presents some important empirical challenges. In this paper, we use identification-robust methods and central bank real-time staff projections to obtain estimates for the equilibrium real rate from contemporaneous and forward-looking Taylor-type interest rate rules. The methods notably account for the potential presence of endogeneity, under-identification, and errors-in-variables concerns. Our applications are conducted on Canadian data. The results reveal some important identification difficulties associated with some of our models, reinforcing the need to use identification-robust methods to estimate such policy functions. Despite these challenges, we are able to obtain fairly comparable point estimates for the real equilibrium interest rate across our different models, and in the case of the best fitting model, also remarkable estimate precision.

Brazil: monetary policy and the neutral interest rate

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 966-979
Author(s):  
Cleomar Gomes da Silva ◽  
Rafael Cavalcanti de Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Real Interest Rate ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Macroeconomic Model ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest ◽  
The Interest Rate ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conduct of monetary policy in Brazil and estimate the country’s neutral real interest rate. Design/methodology/approach The authors make use of a state-space macroeconomic model representation. Findings The period of analysis goes from 2003 up to the end of 2013 and the results show that the country’s natural rate of interest was around 4.2 percent in December 2013. Originality/value One of the main differences of this work is the inclusion of variables such as the real exchange rate and world interest rate. This is important because these variables play an important role in the definition of the interest rate and, consequently, in the definition of the neutral interest rate.

Natural Interest Rate: Sraffa Vs. Hayek Debates

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Business Cycle Theory ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Natural Rate Of Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This article deal with the discussion between F. Hayek and P. Sraffa in the 1930s. This piece of the history of economic thought is not presented in the Russian-speaking literature. The main method is a content analysis. The directions of criticism Hayek’s business cycle theory by Sraffa and the response towards is analyzed in the paper. The author compared the opponents’ approaches to the essence of the equilibrium, to the savings-investments equality, to the possibility to lose capital as a result of malinvestments, to the role of expectations, and to the natural rate of interest. A version was offered for explaining the ineffectiveness of Hayek's answer to the question on the multiplicity of natural interest rates and the reasons why the barter economy has been perceived as theoretical basis of the Hayekian analysis. It is the inaccurate wording of the natural interest rate and the representation the theory within the framework of the equilibrium paradigm. The findings of the research may be applied to analyze the impact of interest rate regulation on the economic.

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