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Rents, Technical Change, and Risk Premia Accounting for Secular Trends in Interest Rates, Returns on Capital, Earning Yields, and Factor Shares

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Caballero, Ricardo J; Farhi, Emmanuel; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier
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Abstract
The secular decline in safe interest rates since the early 1980s has been the subject of considerable attention. In this short paper, we argue that it is important to consider the evolution of safe real rates in conjunction with three other first-order macroeconomic stylized facts: the relative constancy of the real return to productive capital, the decline in the labor share, and the decline and subsequent stabilization of the earnings yield. Through the lens of a simple accounting framework, these four facts offer suggestive insights into the economic forces that might be at work.
Date issued
2017-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113841
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Journal
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Citation
Caballero, Ricardo J. et al. “Rents, Technical Change, and Risk Premia Accounting for Secular Trends in Interest Rates, Returns on Capital, Earning Yields, and Factor Shares.” American Economic Review 107, 5 (May 2017): 614–620 © 2017 American Economic Association
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0002-8282
1944-7981

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