IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/iecrev/v60y2019i4p1539-1563.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Stabilization Policy At The Zero Lower Bound

Author

Listed:
  • Paola Boel
  • Christopher J. Waller

Abstract

We construct a monetary economy with aggregate liquidity shocks and heterogeneous idiosyncratic preference shocks. In this environment, not all agents are satiated at the zero lower bound (ZLB) even when the Friedman rule is the best interest‐rate policy the central bank can implement. As a consequence, central bank stabilization policy, which takes the form of repo arrangements in response to aggregate demand shocks, temporarily relaxes the liquidity constraint of impatient agents at the ZLB. Due to a pecuniary externality, this policy may have beneficial general equilibrium effects for patient agents even if they are unconstrained in their money balances.

Suggested Citation

  • Paola Boel & Christopher J. Waller, 2019. "Stabilization Policy At The Zero Lower Bound," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 60(4), pages 1539-1563, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:iecrev:v:60:y:2019:i:4:p:1539-1563
    DOI: 10.1111/iere.12396
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12396
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/iere.12396?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. van Buggenum, Hugo, 2023. "Coexistence of money and interest-bearing bonds," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 153(C).
    2. Uras, Burak R. & van Buggenum, Hugo, 2022. "Preference heterogeneity and optimal monetary policy," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    3. van Buggenum, Hugo, 2021. "Coexistence of Money and Interest-Bearing Bonds," Other publications TiSEM 0bd7c6fc-3779-4bf3-9100-0, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:iecrev:v:60:y:2019:i:4:p:1539-1563. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deupaus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.