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Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap

Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap Abstract This paper analyzes optimal policy responses to a global liquidity trap. The key feature of this environment is that relative prices respond perversely. A fall in demand in one country causes an appreciation of its terms of trade, exacerbating the initial shock. At the zero bound, this country cannot counter this shock. Then it may be optimal for the partner country to raise interest rates. The partner may set a positive policy interest rate, even though its “natural interest rate” is below zero. An optimal policy response requires a mutual interaction between monetary and fiscal policy. (JEL E12, E32, E44, E52, E62, F44, G01 ) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics American Economic Association

Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap

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Publisher
American Economic Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by the American Economic Association
Subject
The Financial Crisis: Lessons for International Macroeconomics Conference, Paris, France, October 28–29, 2011
ISSN
1945-7715
eISSN
1945-7715
DOI
10.1257/mac.5.3.190
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Abstract

Abstract This paper analyzes optimal policy responses to a global liquidity trap. The key feature of this environment is that relative prices respond perversely. A fall in demand in one country causes an appreciation of its terms of trade, exacerbating the initial shock. At the zero bound, this country cannot counter this shock. Then it may be optimal for the partner country to raise interest rates. The partner may set a positive policy interest rate, even though its “natural interest rate” is below zero. An optimal policy response requires a mutual interaction between monetary and fiscal policy. (JEL E12, E32, E44, E52, E62, F44, G01 )

Journal

American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsAmerican Economic Association

Published: Jul 1, 2013

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