Abstract - Expectations, Taylor Rules and Liquidity Traps

Journal of Reviews on Global Economics

Expectations, Taylor Rules and Liquidity Traps
Pages
193-197
Yangyang Ji

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-7092.2017.06.17

Published: 01 June 2017

 


Abstract: This paper includes three equilibrium paths (Christiano et al. 2011; Werning 2012; Cochrane 2016) that model liquidity traps in a unified framework with expectations of duration of the zero lower bound and expectations of a Taylor-type rule outside of the trap, and finds that their appearance depends on these expectations. Other than that, Werning (2012)’s and Cochrane (2016)’s equilibrium paths require one more strong assumption and are thus arguably harder to observe in reality although Cochrane (2016)’s equilibrium path fits the recent data better.

Keywords: Liquidity traps, The zero lower bound, Equilibrium selection, Taylor rules.

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