Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60659 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 235
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper details the microfoundations of the model presented in Staff Report no. 234, “Great Expectations and the End of the Depression.” It defines the Markov perfect equilibrium formally in the nonlinear model, discusses in some detail the approximation method used and the order of accuracy of this approximation, and gives proofs of two propositions not proved in Staff Report no. 234. In addition, this paper states a proposition that shows the equivalence between the linear quadratic approximation in Staff Report no. 234 and a first order approximation to the exact nonlinear conditions of the government in the Markov perfect equilibrium defined here.
Subjects: 
deflation, Great Depression, regime change, zero interest rates, Markov perfect equilibrium
JEL: 
E52
E63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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