In this article, we study the optimal simple monetary policy rules under the Zero Lower Bound using DSGE model. The model economy is open and highly dependent on the terms of trade. Economic dynamics is the result of a terms of trade shock and an external interest rate shock. Using the impulse...

This paper gives money a role in providing cheap collateral in a model of banking; besides the Taylor Rule, monetary policy can affect the risk-premium on bank lending to firms by varying the supply of M0, so at the zero bound monetary policy is effective; fiscal policy crowds out investment via...

The celebrated Taylor rule provides a simple formula that aims to capture how the central bank interest rate is adjusted as a linear function of inflation and output gap. However, the rule does not take explicitly into account the zero lower bound on the interest rate. Prior studies on interest...