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Safety Traps in the Global Economy
Ricardo J. Caballero MIT
First ESRB Annual ConferenceFrankfurt, September 2016
[For models see work with E. Farhi and P.O. Gourinchas]
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The Idea• Availability of Stores of Value is an important input
into production, investment, and consumption activities
• SAFE stores of value play a very special role in this context, particularly so at times of great uncertainty
• A scarcity of them has the potential to cause a host of macroeconomic problems, from excessive risk build up in the financial system, to acute and stubborn forms of recessions and chronic economic malaise
• This is a serious problem for the Global Economy today
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Big Picture
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What is a Safe Asset?
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• Working definition: An asset that preserves much of its value in a large systemic event
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The Players
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How did the shortage develop?
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How did the shortage develop?
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How did the shortage develop?
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How did the shortage develop?
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How did the shortage develop?
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Implications
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Implications
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Implications
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Implications
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Implications (Safety Trap)
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Implications (Safety Trap)
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Implications
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AGGREGATE DEMAND
Go ESBies!!!
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Implications (FX)
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Implications
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Reactions
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What’s next? • Hotelling like… the price of an exhaustible resource rises ad
infinitum… very much the situation of safe debt normalized by global demand for it
• Potential medium term “solutions”:
– Valuation:
• Exhausted rates channel (ZLB) • Appreciation of core currencies
Paradox of reserve currencyIt has international political limits
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What’s next? – Quantities:
• More public debt… Political limits and bubble like equilibrium…Funding infrastructure makes sense
• Private substitutes Fragility is a real concern. Public-private? TICs?
• Reducing Demand for Safe Assets – Central BanksEM: More pooling DM: Focus on risky assets
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Wasteful….
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