Eurozone’s demographics will continue to push interest rates down – paper

Structural policies will take time to reverse impact of adverse demographics, researchers say

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Annabel Jeffery

The demography of the eurozone has depressed the region’s interest rates and will continue to do so unless policymakers act, a working paper published by the European Central Bank argues.

In On secular stagnation and low interest rates: demography matters, Giuseppe Ferrero, Marco Gross and Stefano Neri attempt an “empirical, panel equation system-based assessment” of how European population trends have affected real and nominal interest rates.

The authors present two counterfactual scenarios

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