Heeding daedalus: Optimal inflation and the zero lower bound

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-37

  Williams, John C ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

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