This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …

Prevalent thinking about liquidity traps suggests that the perfect substitutability of money and bonds at a zero short … benefits and facilitate the use of powerful fiscal policy tools even in a liquidity trap. In this paper, we consider an … alternative approach that has been suggested for use in a liquidity trap, a scheduled increase in consumption tax rates. We find …

This paper considers whether 'liquidity trap' issues have important bearing on the desirability of inflation targeting … perspective, a quantitative open-economy model is developed and the likelihood of encountering a liquidity trap is explored for … several policy rules. Also, it is emphasized that, if the usual interest rate instrument is immobilized by a liquidity trap …

instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In …

during the period of Japan's bubble economy and subsequent stagnation. The yen experienced epic gyrations over that period … the price of oil. Since the mid-1990s, the yen's real exchange rate has generally followed a depreciating trend and Japan …