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Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization Policy at the Zero Lower Bound : Consequences of Limited Foresight

Woodford, Michael - 2020

This paper reconsiders the degree to which macroeconomic stabilization is possible when the zero lower bound is a relevant constraint on the effectiveness of conventional monetary policy, under an assumption of bounded rationality. In particular, we reconsider the potential role of...

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Does Policy Communication During Covid Work?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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Price Level Determinacy Without Control of a Monetary Aggregate

Woodford, Michael - 1995

It is shown that the price level remains determinate even in the case of two kinds of radical money supply endogeneity -- an interest rate peg by the central bank, and a 'free banking' regime -- that are commonly supposed to imply loss of control of the price level. Price level determination...

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Optimal Inflation Targeting under Alternative Fiscal Regimes

Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2006

Standard discussions of flexible inflation targeting as an optimal monetary policy abstract completely from the consequences of monetary policy for the government budget. But at least some of the countries now adopting inflation targeting have substantial difficulty in controlling fiscal...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap

Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2004

In previous work (Eggertsson and Woodford, 2003), we characterized the optimal conduct of monetary policy when a real disturbance causes the natural rate of interest to be temporarily negative, so that the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, and showed that commitment to a...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy : A Linear Quadratic Approach

Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2003

We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which prices are sticky and the only available sources of government revenue are distorting taxes. Our linear-quadratic approach allows us to nest both conventional analyses of optimal...

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Quantitative Easing and Financial Stability

Woodford, Michael - 2016

The massive expansion of central-bank balance sheets in response to recent crises raises important questions about the effects of such "quantitative easing" policies, both their effects on financial conditions and on aggregate demand (the intended effects of the policies), and their possible...

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Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy

Cúrdia, Vasco - 2015

Nonetheless, we find that the target criterion--a linear relation that should be maintained between the inflation rate and changes in the output gap--that characterizes optimal policy in the basic NK model continues to provide a good approximation to optimal policy, even in the presence of...

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Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy with Endogenous Collateral Constraints

Araújo, Aloísio - 2013

We consider the effects of central-bank purchases of a risky asset, financed by issuing riskless nominal liabilities (reserves), as an additional dimension of policy alongside "conventional" monetary policy (central-bank control of the riskless nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium...

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Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S

Coibion, Olivier - 2012

We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the … income, consumption and total expenditures. Furthermore, monetary shocks can account for a significant component of the … historical cyclical variation in income and consumption inequality. Using detailed micro-level data on income and consumption, we …

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