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Bank of Canada RSS Feedsen2024-03-29T07:31:47+00:00An Update on the Neutral Rate of Interest
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The neutral rate serves as a benchmark for measuring monetary stimulus and provides a medium- to long-run anchor for the real policy rate. Global neutral rate estimates have been falling over the past few decades. Factors such as population aging, high corporate savings, and low trend productivity growth are likely to continue supporting a low global neutral rate. These global factors as well as domestic factors are exerting downward pres-sure on the Canadian real neutral rate, which is estimated to be between 0.5 to 1.5 per cent. This low neutral rate has important implications for monetary policy and financial stability.2017-11-16T12:16:01+00:00enAn Update on the Neutral Rate of Interest2017-11-16Is Slower Growth the New Normal in Advanced Economies?
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This article reviews and examines some of the main explanations for the slow growth that many advanced economies continue to experience seven years after the 2007–09 global financial crisis. Does this muted recovery reflect just a prolonged cycle in the aftermath of a financial crisis? Is it due to a structural inadequacy of demand leading to a long-lasting liquidity trap? Or is it largely supply side in nature, reflecting demographic and technological factors?2015-11-19T10:50:27+00:00enIs Slower Growth the New Normal in Advanced Economies?2015-11-19