When Demand Creates its Own Supply: Saving Traps
Article dans une revue: The mechanism by which aggregate supply creates the income that generates its matching demand (called Say’s Law), may not work in a general equilibrium with decentralized markets and savings in bonds or money. Full employment is an equilibrium, but convergence to that state is slow. A self-fulfilling precautionary motive to accumulate bonds (with a zero aggregate supply) can set the economy on an equilibrium path with a fast convergence towards a steady state with unemployment that may be an absorbing state from which no equilibrium path emerges to restore full employment.
Auteur(s)
Christophe Chamley
Revue
- Review of Economic Studies
Date de publication
- 2014
Mots-clés
- Credit constraint
- Financial crisis
- Private debt
- Say’s Law
- Saving trap
Pages
- 651-680
URL de la notice HAL
Version
- 1
Volume
- 81