The deflation bias and committing to being irresponsible

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-321

  Eggertsson, Gauti B ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Deflation; Liquidity traps; Zero bound on interest rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645794179     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0031     Document Type: Review

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