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Lassen sich aus den Ursachen des Niedrigzinsumfeldes Wege für eine Zinswende ableiten?

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The low interest rate environment is less due to monetary policy and more due to global trends in investment and savings as well as a crisis-induced reduction in investment. Finishing the balance sheet recession can lead to a higher interest rate level in the medium-run through higher investment. A higher natural real interest rate would enable central banks to lift their policy interest rates without hindering economic recovery. A higher natural real interest rate level would also foster the efficacy of monetary policy by making future problems arising from the zero lower bound less frequent. For this, structural reforms, which dampen the effects of demography on savings and on the natural real interest rate, are needed. Das Umfeld niedriger Zinsen ist weniger auf die Geldpolitik, sondern mehr auf globale Trends in der Investitionsnachfrage und in der Sparneigung sowie einen krisenbedingten Rückgang der Investitionen zurückzuführen. Mittelfristig kann die Überwindung der Bilanzrezession zu höheren Investitionen und darüber zu einem höheren Zinsniveau führen. Ein höherer natürlicher Realzins würde es den Zentralbanken ermöglichen, ihre Leitzinsen zu erhöhen, ohne die wirtschaftliche Erholung zu bremsen. Ein höherer natürlicher Realzins ist auch für die Wirksamkeit der Geldpolitik förderlich, um die Probleme durch das Erreichen der Nullzinsgrenze in Zukunft seltener auftreten zu lassen. Dies macht zudem Strukturreformen erforderlich, die die Auswirkungen der demografischen Entwicklung auf die Ersparnis und den natürlichen Realzins abmildern.

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  • Markus Demary, 2016. "Lassen sich aus den Ursachen des Niedrigzinsumfeldes Wege für eine Zinswende ableiten?," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 85(1), pages 159-172.
  • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwvjh:85-1-11
    DOI: 10.3790/vjh.85.1.159
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    1. Michael Andreasch & Marc Peter Radke & Manuel Rupprecht, 2020. "Renditen privater Haushalte nach Vermögensgruppen — Deutschland versus Österreich [Real Returns of Private Households with Different Financial Assets — A Comparison of Germany and Austria]," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 100(6), pages 446-453, June.

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    Keywords

    Deflation; inflation; interest rates; investment; monetary policy; savings; Zero Lower Bound;
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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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