2020 US neutral rate assessment / by James Bootsma, Thomas J. Carter, Xin Scott Chen, Chris Hajzler and Argyn Toktamyssov.: FB3-6/2020-12E-PDF

"This paper presents Bank of Canada staff's current assessment of the US neutral rate, along with a newly developed set of models on which that assessment is based. The overall assessment is that the US neutral rate currently lies in a range of 1.75 to 2.75 percent. This represents a decline of 50 basis points relative to the range judged at the time of the Bank's last neutral rate update in April 2019. Roughly half of this decline reflects an assessment of conditions prevailing in late 2019 and is thus unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic. The other half reflects the balance of several key channels through which the COVID-19 shock is likely to influence US interest rates over the years ahead, including its impacts on potential output growth, inequality, demand for safe assets and the level of US government debt. Results from the new models specifically point to upward pressure from higher government debt being more than offset by downward pressure from lower potential output growth, higher inequality and heightened demand for safe assets"--Abstract, page ii.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Bank of Canada, issuing body.
Title 2020 US neutral rate assessment / by James Bootsma, Thomas J. Carter, Xin Scott Chen, Chris Hajzler and Argyn Toktamyssov.
Series title Staff discussion paper = Document d'analyse du personnel, 1914-0568 ; 2020-12
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "Last updated: December 1, 2020."
Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2020.
©2020
Author / Contributor Bootsma, James, author.
Description 1 online resource (ii, 9 pages).
Catalogue number
  • FB3-6/2020-12E-PDF
Subject terms Interest rates -- United States -- Econometric models.
Monetary policy -- United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Epidemics -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Taux d'intérêt -- États-Unis -- Modèles économétriques.
Politique monétaire -- États-Unis.
COVID-19 -- Aspect economique -- États-Unis.
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspect economique -- États-Unis.
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