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Financial Crisis, Taylor Rule and the Fed

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  • Saten Kumar

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology)

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We investigate how the Federal Reserve (Fed) hit the zero lower bound (ZLB) interest rate while operating under a Taylor-type policy rule. We estimate a reaction function and the results indicate that during the crisis Fed increased the weight on output without also increasing the weight on inflation led them to hit the ZLB.

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  • Saten Kumar, 2014. "Financial Crisis, Taylor Rule and the Fed," Working Papers 2014-02, Auckland University of Technology, Department of Economics.
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