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Title: Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound

Author(s): Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerron-Quintana and Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramírez

Publication Date: November 2011

Keyword(s): New Keynesian models, supply-side policies and zero lower bound

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper examines how supply-side policies may play a role in fighting a low aggregate demand that traps an economy at the zero lower bound (ZLB) of nominal interest rates. Future increases in productivity or reductions in mark-ups triggered by supply-side policies generate a wealth effect that pulls current consumption and output up. Since the economy is at the ZLB, increases in the interest rates do not undo this wealth effect, as we will have in the case outside the ZLB. We illustrate this mechanism with a simple two-period New Keynesian model. We discuss possible objections to this set of policies and the relation of supply-side policies with more conventional monetary and fiscal policies.

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Fernández-Villaverde, J, Guerron-Quintana, P and Rubio-Ramírez, J. 2011. 'Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8642