Benhabib, Jess; Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie; Uribe, Martín - 1998 - This draft: November 7, 1998
Since John Taylor's (1993) seminal paper, a large literature has argued that active interest rate feedback rules, that … stabilizing. In this paper, we argue that once the zero bound on nominal interest rates is taken into account, active interest-rate … feedback rules can easily lead to unexpected consequences. Specifically, in the context of a sticky-price model, we show that …