Prevalent thinking about liquidity traps suggests that the perfect substitutability of money and bonds at a zero short-term nominal interest rate renders open-market operations ineffective for achieving macroeconomic stabilization goals. We show that even were this the case, there remains a...

Money, Capital Mobility, and Trade -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Nobel Prize Background Survey -- Introduction -- The International Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Two- Country Model -- The Rise and Fall of a Barbarous Relic: The Role of Gold in the International...

Prevalent thinking about liquidity traps suggests that the perfect substitutability of money and bonds at a zero short-term nominal interest rate renders open-market operations ineffective for achieving macroeconomic stabilization goals. We show that even were this the case, there remains a...