Interest rate rules and price determinacy: The role of transactions services of bonds

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• 作者：Canzoneri ; Matthew B. ; Diba ; Behzad T.
• 关键词：Price indeterminacy ; Bond liquidity
• 刊名：Journal of Monetary Economics
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：March, 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：52
• 期：2
• 页码：329-343
• 全文大小：251 K

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Interest rate rules have been associated with price indeterminacy when they do not respond aggressively enough to inflation. Price indeterminacy is typically associated with indeterminacy of real bond balances, suggesting that the missing element is a meaningful role for government bonds. We assume that government bonds provide arbitrarily small transactions services and show that this can dramatically change the local and global determinacy conditions. In particular, the specification of fiscal policy affects the aggressiveness with which monetary policy must respond to inflation to deliver local determinacy—a range of passive monetary policies, even an interest rate peg, may yield determinacy.