Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208338 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2304
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New Keynesian model where occasional declines in agents' confidence can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no straightforward recipe for mitigating the welfare costs and the systematic in ation shortfall associated with expectations-driven liquidity traps. Raising the in ation target or appointing an in ation-conservative central banker improves in ation outcomes away from the lower bound but exacerbates the shortfall at the lower bound. Using government spending as an additional policy tool worsens stabilization outcomes both at and away from the lower bound. However, appointing a policymaker who is sufficiently less concerned with government spending stabilization than society can eliminate expectations-driven liquidity traps altogether.
Subjects: 
Effective Lower Bound
Sunspot Equilibria
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Discretion
Policy Delegation
JEL: 
E52
E61
E62
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3566-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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