Liquidity Trap and Stability of Taylor Rules
Antoine Le Riche (),
Francesco Magris and
Antoine Parent
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Antoine Le Riche: University of Maine, Aix-Marseille University (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), GAINS, CNRS, GREQAM, EHESS & CAC, https://sites.google.com/site/antoinelriche/home
No 1617, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France
Abstract:
We study a productive economy with safe government bonds and fractional cash-in-advance constraint on consumption expenditures. Government issues bonds and levies taxes to finance public expenditures, while the Central Bank follows a feedback Taylor rules by pegging the nominal interest rate. We show that when the nominal interest rate is bound to be non-negative, under active policy rules a liquidity trap steady state does emerge besides the Leeper (1991) equilibrium. The stability of the two steady states depends, in turns, upon the amplitude of the liquidity constraint. When the share of consumption to be paid cash is set lower than one half, the liquidity trap equilibrium is unstable. The stability of Leeper equilibrium too depends dramatically upon the amplitude of the liquidity constraint. Policy and Taylor rules are thus theoretically rehabilitated since their targets, by contrast with a vast literature, may be now stable. We also show that a relaxation of the liquidity constraint is Pareto-improving and that the liquidity trap equilibrium Pareto-dominates the Leeper one, in view of the zero cost of money.
Keywords: Cash-in-Advance; Liquidity Trap; Monetary Policy; Multiple Equilibria. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E41 E43 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-05-06, Revised 2016-05-06
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