Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119883 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 15-071
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
Academic research and policy makers in the Euro area are currently concerned with the threat of debt deflation and secular stagnation in Europe. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that secular stagnation and debt deflation in the Euro area may be rather slowly developing. Yet what appears as major peril is that debt deflation with a lack of economic growth, rising real interest rates and further rising debt may trigger household defaults, defaults of firms and banks, rise of risk premia, and default risk of certain sectors of the economy or sovereign defaults. It is this rising default and financial risk then that may lead to a regime change to a slowly moving debt crisis with high financial risk and high financial stress. In order to explore those issues, a macro policy model of Svensson type is introduced, exhibiting a regime of low and high financial stress. Then, a four dimensional multi-regime VAR is employed to an Euro area data set to support the theoretical model and the claim that in particular Southern Euro area countries are affected by debt deflation and financial market stress.
Subjects: 
Debt Deflation
Secular Stagnation
Euro Area
Interest Rate Spread
Multi Regime Model
JEL: 
E43
F36
F45
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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