The Fear Economy : A Theory of Output, Interest, and Safe Assets /

This paper presents a fear theory of the economy, based on the interplay between fear of rare disasters and the interest rate on safe assets. To do this, I study the macroeconomic consequences of government-administered interest rates in the neoclassical real business cycle model. When the governmen...

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1. Verfasser: Agarwal, Ruchir
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/175
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