The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 139-233

  Eggertsson, Gauti B ^b   Woodford, Michael ^a   Friedman, Benjamin M ^b   Gertler, Mark ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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