The Puzzle of Persistently Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials : Financial Repression or Income Catch-Up? /
The interest rate-growth differential (IRGD) shows a marked correlation with GDP per capita. It has been on average around 1 percentage point for large advanced economies during 1999-2008; but below -7 percentage points among non-advanced economies - exerting a powerful stabilizing influence on gove...
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Format: | Journal |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2011.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2011/260 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |