Stagnation Traps

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

No 832, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to permanent, or very persistent, slumps characterized by unemployment and weak growth. We refer to these episodes as stagnation traps, because they consist in the joint occurrence of a liquidity and a growth trap. In a stagnation trap, the central bank is unable to restore full employment because weak growth pushes the interest rate against the zero lower bound, while growth is weak because low aggregate demand results in low profits, limiting firms' investment in innovation. Policies aiming at restoring growth can successfully lead the economy out of a stagnation trap, thus rationalizing the notion of job creating growth.

Keywords: secular stagnation; liquidity traps; growth traps; endogenous growth; sunspots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E43 E52 O42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-05
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