• Debt deflation is a theory that recessions and depressions are due to the overall level of debt rising in real value because of deflation, causing people...
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  • economy because it increases the real value of debt, especially if the deflation is unexpected. Deflation may also aggravate recessions and lead to a deflationary...
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    earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. Joseph Schumpeter described...
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    depression. Fisher's debt-deflation theory initially lacked mainstream influence because of the counter-argument that debt-deflation represented no more...
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    of outstanding debt. Moreover, the continued deleveraging of outstanding debts increases the rate of deflation. Thus, debt and deflation act on and react...
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    corrected, deflation and a credit crunch followed. Deflation effectively made debt more expensive and, as Fisher explained, this reinforced deflation again...
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    Related explanations highlight the role of debt deflation, in which falling prices increased the real burden of debt on households and businesses. In addition...
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    occur in 2008. Debt deflation is a theory of economic cycles which holds that recessions and depressions are due to the overall level of debt shrinking (deflating)...
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  • bubbles do when they burst," though theories of financial crises such as debt deflation and the Financial Instability Hypothesis suggest instead that bubbles...
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    Monetary Fund working paper WP/12/202; accessed November 6, 2016. "Debt-Deflation versus the Liquidity Trap: the Dilemma of Nonconventional Monetary Policy"...
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  • The term is attributed to economist Richard Koo and is related to the debt deflation concept described by economist Irving Fisher. Recent examples include...
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    fixed interest rate, so the debt to GDP ratio increased as a consequence of the decrease in nominal GDP growth due to deflation. The growth of annual revenue...
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  • Keynesian economics, as well as Monetarist economics and in the theory of debt deflation. Inflationism is not accepted within the economics community, and is...
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    business cycle has been banished [and] debts can be taken on ... But in truth neither the boom, nor the debt deflation ... and certainly not a recovery can...
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    amplify the movement—inflation feeds upon inflation and debt-deflation feeds upon debt deflation." In other words, people are momentum investors by nature...
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  • theory of money (also called debt theory of money), concerning the relationship between credit and money. Debt deflation and balance-sheet theories, which...
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  • the debt deflation theory of economic crises, being called "the paradox of debt" – people save not to increase savings, but rather to pay down debt. As...
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    of deflation. This significantly reduced income and GDP, resulting in a severe recession, decline in tax receipts and a significant rise in the debt-to-GDP...
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  • depressions are caused by an overall rise in the real debt level thanks to deflation. As a result, debt liquidation occurs followed by distress selling and...
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    levels of household debt accumulated in the decades preceding the crisis resulted in a balance sheet recession (similar to debt deflation) once housing prices...
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  • collateralized debt obligation (CDO), which were assigned safe ratings by the credit rating agencies. Low interest rates – Fears of deflation, the bursting...
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    full-reserve banking. Irving Fisher's "The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions" (1933) analyzed how debt cycles contributed to economic instability...
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    amplify the movement – inflation feeds upon inflation and debt-deflation feeds upon debt-deflation." In other words, people are momentum investors by nature...
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    economics, consumer debt is the amount owed by consumers (as opposed to amounts owed by businesses or governments). It includes debts incurred on purchase...
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    on the relationship between economics and economic history in his "Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions": The study of dis-equilibrium may proceed...
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  • (yields). Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky posited that "after a debt deflation that induces a deep depression, an increase in the money supply with...
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    levels of household debt accumulated in the decades preceding the crisis resulted in a balance sheet recession (similar to debt deflation) once housing prices...
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  • severity of the contractions which followed it could be explained by debt and deflation and that a financial panic would trigger catastrophic deleveraging...
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  • intimately tied to, the debt-deflation theory of Irving Fisher, and the notion of a credit bubble (credit being the flip side of debt), and has been elaborated...
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    American economist Irving Fisher developed the theory of debt deflation. He explained that deflation causes a decline in profits and asset prices, and a still...
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