Overcoming the zero bound on nominal interest rates with negative interest on currency: Gesell's solution

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 490, 2003, Pages 723-746

  Buiter, Willem H ^a   Panigirtzoglou, Nikolaos ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; ECONOMIC THEORY; INTEREST RATE; KEYNESIAN THEORY;

EID: 0242369926     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.t01-1-00162     Document Type: Article

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