How to Fight Deflation in a Liquidity Trap : Committing to Being Irresponsible /

I model deflation, at zero nominal interest rate, in a microfounded general equilibrium model. I show that deflation can be analyzed as a credibility problem if the government has only one policy instrument, money supply carried out by means of open market operations in short-term bonds, and cannot...

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Autor principal: Eggertsson, Gauti
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/064
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF