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give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. There is no straightforward recipe for enhancing welfare in this economy …
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reducing expected inflation. In an empirically rich model calibrated to match key features of the U.S. economy, we find that … at the economy's risky steady state. Our model suggests that achieving the inflation target may be more difficult now …
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We simulate the FRB/US model and a number of statistical models to quantify some of the risks stemming from the effective lower bound (ELB) on the federal funds rate and to assess the efficacy of adjustments to the federal funds rate target, balance sheet policies, and forward guidance to...
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increases the welfare of an economy in which large contractionary shocks occasionally force the central bank to lower the policy … overheating of the economy associated with such a low-for-long interest rate policy mitigates the declines in inflation and output …
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In expectations-driven liquidity traps, a higher inflation target is associated with lower inflation and consumption. As a result, introducing the possibility of expectations-driven liquidity traps to an otherwise standard model lowers the optimal inflation target. Using a calibrated New...
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