The simple analytics of helicopter money: Why it works - Always

Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Buiter, Willem H ^a  

^a CITIGROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Central bank; Helicopter money; Liquidity trap; Quantitative easing; Secular stagnation; Seigniorage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940317818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-28     Document Type: Article

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