Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145552 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: Forward Guidance and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy No. A16-V1
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
We examine "Forward Guidance Contracts", which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts. We integrate those contracts into the New Keynesian Framework and study how they can be used to overcome a liquidity trap. We establish the properties of simple renewable Forward Guidance Contracts and characterize the contracts that the government wants to offer repeatedly. These contracts create favorable tradeoffs between the efficacy of forward guidance at the zero bound and the reduced flexibility in reacting to future events, and dominate long-term contracts for moderate negative natural real interest-rate shocks. We discuss which type of Forward Guidance Contracts can be used when there is uncertainty about natural real interest-rate shocks, a situation which typically calls for moderate incentive intensity. Finally we explore alternative contractual environments.
JEL: 
E52
E58
E31
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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