can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no …-driven liquidity traps. Raising the in ation target or appointing an in ation-conservative central banker improves in ation outcomes … sufficiently less concerned with government spending stabilization than society can eliminate expectations-driven liquidity traps …

a liquidity trap? To provide an answer, we employ a small stochastic New Keynesian model with a zero bound on nominal …-term nominal interest rate and debt-financed government spending. The optimal policy response to a liquidity trap critically … sector expectations that helps to dampen the fall in output and inflation at the outset of the liquidity trap. …