Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: William John Tayler
Author-Name-First: William John
Author-Name-Last: Tayler
Author-Name: Roy Zilberman
Author-Name-First: Roy
Author-Name-Last: Zilberman
Title: Unconventional Policies in State-Contingent Liquidity Traps
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.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
Creation-Date: 2019
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2019_005.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 257107351
Classification-JEL: E32, E44, E52, E58, E63
Keywords: deposit tax-subsidy, cost channel, optimal policy, discretion vs. commitment, zero lower bound
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:257107351