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9. Corporate Cash Piles and Falling Interest Rates

verfasst von : Heleen Mees

Erschienen in: The Chinese Birdcage

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Bernanke blamed the global savings glut for the relatively low yields on longer-term US Treasuries in 2004, singling out the savings of emerging economies. Bernanke omitted, however, that US corporate demand for US Treasuries was at least as large. It would be more apt to speak of a corporate savings glut, especially because emerging market’s savings consist also for a large part of corporate savings. Also, it is too simple to blame foreign capital inflows for the housing bubble as causality runs from rising house prices to the deterioration of the current account, not the other way around. More importantly, there is a long-term trend toward lower interest rates that is, foremost, the result of the shift in income from labor to capital.

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1
Emerging and developing markets’ collective GDP in 2004 was about three-fourths of US GDP.
 
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6
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7
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25
The corporate savings glut is a good example of how the availability of data shapes the policy debate. Had more data been available, corporate savings would undoubtedly have shared the blame for the global financial crisis.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Corporate Cash Piles and Falling Interest Rates
verfasst von
Heleen Mees
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58886-9_9