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Infrequent but Long-Lived Zero Lower Bound Episodes and the Optimal Rate of Inflation

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  • Marc Dordal i Carreras

    (Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720)

  • Olivier Coibion

    (Department of Economics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
    National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

  • Yuriy Gorodnichenko

    (Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
    National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138)

  • Johannes Wieland

    (National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
    Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093)

Abstract

Countries rarely hit the zero lower bound (ZLB) on interest rates, but when they do, these episodes tend to be very long-lived. These two features are difficult to incorporate jointly into macroeconomic models using typical representations of shock processes. We introduce a regime-switching representation of risk premium shocks into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model to generate a realistic distribution of ZLB durations. We discuss what different calibrations of this model imply for optimal inflation rates.

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  • Marc Dordal i Carreras & Olivier Coibion & Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Johannes Wieland, 2016. "Infrequent but Long-Lived Zero Lower Bound Episodes and the Optimal Rate of Inflation," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 8(1), pages 497-520, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:anr:reveco:v:8:y:2016:p:497-520
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    Keywords

    optimal inflation; zero lower bound;

    JEL classification:

    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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