How Negative Interest Rates Affect the Risk-Taking of Individual Investors: Experimental Evidence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Baars ◽  
Henning Cordes ◽  
Hannes Mohrschladt

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 101179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Baars ◽  
Henning Cordes ◽  
Hannes Mohrschladt


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian A. Conrad

This paper examines the effects of interest rate cuts on investment behavior. The methodology is to simulate investment decision making under different capital costs. The experiment showed that decreasing interest rates encourage risk-taking. With the decreased interest rate as borrowing costs the risk taking increased weakly but continuously. The risk taking increased strongly when the interest rate reached zero. Thus the experiment showed excessive risk-taking when there were no capital costs. This finding supports the hypothesis that extreme expansive monetary policy with low, zero or negative interest rates encourage financial bubbles and overinvestments or wrong investments in the real economy.



Author(s):  
Alessio Bongiovanni ◽  
Alessio Reghezza ◽  
Riccardo Santamaria ◽  
Jonathan Williams




CFA Digest ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub M. Szudejko


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasios Anastasopoulos


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Arce ◽  
Miguel Garcia-Posada ◽  
Sergio Mayordomo ◽  
Steven R. G. Ongena


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