Publikationsserver
Equilibrium Real Interest Rates for the BRICS Countries
The equilibrium real interest rate is one of the most discussed variables in economics, although it is unobservable. While it has been estimated with respect to various developed countries, this paper is the first to estimate it for five developing countries - the BRICS countries. To do so the mo...
保存先:
| 出版年: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 14-2018) |
|---|---|
| 第一著者: | |
| フォーマット: | 論文 |
| 言語: | 英語 |
| 出版事項: |
Philipps-Universität Marburg
2018
|
| 主題: | |
| オンライン･アクセス: | PDFフルテキスト |
| タグ: |
タグ追加
タグなし, このレコードへの初めてのタグを付けませんか!
|
| 要約: | The equilibrium real interest rate is one of the most discussed variables
in economics, although it is unobservable. While it has been estimated with
respect to various developed countries, this paper is the first to estimate it for
five developing countries - the BRICS countries. To do so the most widely used model in this respect - the Laubach and Williams model - is used. Moreover, the results are compared to the actual real interest rate to give an indication whether e.g. monetary policy was too tight or too loose in certain periods. The results indicate that we indeed have substantial differences between the actual and the equilibrium real interest rate going either way. While for China and India monetary policy tends to be too loose in many periods, thus boosting economic growth even further, the reverse seems to be true with respect to Brazil especially in the late 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. In Russia and South Africa the actual real rate is mainly in line with the equilibrium one, thus monetary policy is neither to loose nor too tight. |
|---|---|
| 物理的記述: | 27 Seiten |
| ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
| DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0568 |