THE LIQUIDITY TRAP, THE REAL BALANCE EFFECT, AND THE FRIEDMAN RULE
This article studies the behavior of the economy and the efficacy of monetary policy under zero nominal interest rates using a model with population growth that nests, as a special case, the conventional specification in which there is a single infinitely lived representative agent. The article show...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International economic review (Philadelphia) 2005-11, Vol.46 (4), p.1271-1301 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This article studies the behavior of the economy and the efficacy of monetary policy under zero nominal interest rates using a model with population growth that nests, as a special case, the conventional specification in which there is a single infinitely lived representative agent. The article shows that with a growing population, monetary policy has distributional consequences that give rise to a real balance effect, thereby eliminating the liquidity trap. These same distributional effects, however, can also work to make many agents much worse off under zero nominal interest rates than they are when the nominal interest rate is positive. |
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ISSN: | 0020-6598 1468-2354 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2005.00367.x |