May 23, 2013. Presentation. "Monetary Policy in a Low Policy Rate Environment." OMFIF Golden Series Lecture, London.

November 8, 2012. Presentation. "Shadow Interest Rates and the Stance of U.S. Monetary Policy." Presented at the Center for Finance and Accounting Research Annual Corporate Finance Conference, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

This article uses a DSGE framework to evaluate the role of monetary policy in determining the likelihood of encountering the zero lower bound. We find that the probability of experiencing episodes of being at zero lower bound depends almost exclusively on the monetary policy rule. A policy rule,...