In this book, Jörg Bibow illustrates how Keynes' methodology inspired his economic theorizing and how this led to fundamental insights concerning the role of money that contrasted with orthodox closed-system modelling

This paper reframes the standard liquidity trap model by capturing the costly feedback loop between idiosyncratic risk and aggregate demand at the zero lower bound. I first show that a liquidity trap can result from excess demand for precautionary savings in times of high uncertainty. The model...

This paper develops a stock-flow consistent model that explicitly integrates the role of liquidity preference and perceived uncertainty into the decision-making process of households, firms, and commercial banks. Emphasis is placed on (1) the link between the precautionary motive and the asset...

When the economy is in a liquidity trap and households have a precautionary motive to save against unemployment risk, adverse demand shocks cause severe deflationary spirals and output contractions. In this context, we study the implications of optimal monetary policy, which consists of keeping...

Central banks face uncertainty about the true location of the effective lower bound (ELB) on nominal interest rates. We model optimal discretionary monetary policy during a liquidity trap when the central bank designs policy that is robust with respect to the location of the ELB. If the central...

When the economy is in a liquidity trap and households have a precautionary motive to save against unemployment risk, adverse demand shocks cause severe deflationary spirals and output contractions. In this context, we study the implications of optimal monetary policy, which consists of keeping...