Unconventional Policies in State-Contingent Liquidity Traps
William Tayler () and
Roy Zilberman
No 257107351, Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department
Abstract:
We characterize optimal unconventional monetary and fiscal-financial policies within a tractable New Keynesian model featuring a monetary policy cost channel. State-dependent deposit tax-subsidy interventions remove the zero lower bound restriction on the nominal interest rate, thus minimizing output and price fluctuations following both supply-driven and demand-driven liquidity traps. Specifically, deposit subsidies circumvent the inflation-output trade-off arising from stagflationary shocks by enabling the implementation of negative nominal interest rates. Moreover, deposit taxes facilitate modest interest rate hikes to escape deflationary traps. Notably, discretionary and commitment policies with deposit taxes / subsidies deliver virtually equivalent welfare gains, rendering time-inconsistent forward guidance schedules unnecessary.
Keywords: deposit tax-subsidy; cost channel; optimal policy; discretion vs. commitment; zero lower bound (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E44 E52 E58 E63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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