Have We Underestimated the Likelihood and Severity of Zero Lower Bound Events?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 47-82

  Chung, Hess ^a   Laforte, Jean Philippe ^a   Reifschneider, David ^a   Williams, John C ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Large scale asset purchases; Model uncertainty; Zero lower bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863051382     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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