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The Effects on Investment Behavior of Zero Interest Rate Policy¡ªEvidence From a Roulette Experiment

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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.

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  • Christian A. Conrad, 2019. "The Effects on Investment Behavior of Zero Interest Rate Policy¡ªEvidence From a Roulette Experiment," Applied Economics and Finance, Redfame publishing, vol. 6(4), pages 18-27, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:aefjnl:v:6:y:2019:i:4:p:18-27
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    1. Christian A. Conrad, 2021. "The Effects of Money Supply and Interest Rates on Stock Prices, Evidence from Two Behavioral Experiments," Applied Economics and Finance, Redfame publishing, vol. 8(2), pages 33-41, March.

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    Keywords

    quantitative easing; anticyclical monetary policy; monetary business cycles; financial crisis policy; zero interest rate policy; experimental simulation with roulette;
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    JEL classification:

    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E47 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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