Liquidity Trap and Excessive Leverage /

We investigate the role of macroprudential policies in mitigating liquidity traps driven by deleveraging, using a simple Keynesian model. When constrained agents engage in deleveraging, the interest rate needs to fall to induce unconstrained agents to pick up the decline in aggregate demand. However...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Korinek, Anton
Other Authors: Simsek, Alp
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/129
Online Access:Full text available on IMF