• Austerity 

      Dellas, Harris; Niepelt, Dirk (2014-11-19)
      We shed light on the function, properties and optimal size of austerity using the standard sovereign model augmented to include incomplete information about credit risk. Austerity is defined as the shortfall of consumption ...
    • Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades: First Results 

      Geppert, Christian; Ludwig, Alexander; Abiry, Raphael (2016-09-08)
      Ongoing demographic change will lead to a relative scarcity of raw labor to the effect that output growth will be decreasing in the next decades, a secular stagnation. As physical capital will be relatively abundant, this ...