Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions : A Guide /

The experience of the Great Recession and its aftermath revealed that a lower bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions. However, the zero lower bound is not a law of nature; it is a policy choice. The central message of this paper is that with readily available tools...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agarwal, Ruchir
Other Authors: Kimball, Miles
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/084
Online Access:Full text available on IMF