Hills, Timothy S.; Nakata, Taisuke; Schmidt, Sebastian - 2016 - This draft: January 2016
policy rate will become constrained in the future lowers today's inflation by creating tail risk in future inflation and thus … reducing expected inflation. In an empirically rich model calibrated to match key features of the U.S. economy, we find that … the tail risk induced by the ELB causes inflation to undershoot the target rate of 2 percent by as much as 45 basis points …