Risks of Stagnation in the Euro Area
January 22, 2016
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Summary
This paper discusses the risks of stagnation over the medium term in the euro area. It examines the consequences of longer-term growth trends that predate the crisis and the progress made in addressing the crisis legacies of high unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro area vulnerable to a negative shock that tips the economy into a prolonged slowdown.
Subject: Capital accumulation, Inflation, Labor, National accounts, Prices, Private investment, Production, Total factor productivity
Keywords: area business investment, area difference, Capital accumulation, crisis, Deleveraging, Downside scenario, euro, Euro area, Euro area business investment, Global, IMF staff calculation, Inflation, interest rate, investment growth, labor productivity in the euro area, Potential growth, Private investment, Productivity, productivity frontier, productivity gap, productivity slowdown, service sector productivity, Total factor productivity, WP
Pages:
25
Volume:
2016
DOI:
Issue:
009
Series:
Working Paper No. 2016/009
Stock No:
WPIEA2016009
ISBN:
9781513586175
ISSN:
1018-5941
