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The International Finance Discussion Papers logo links to the International Finance Discussion Papers home page Nominal Interest Rate Pegging Under Alternative Expectations Hypotheses
Joseph E. Gagnon and Dale W. Henderson
1988-336  (November 1988)

Abstract:  Nominal interest rate pegging leads to instability in an IS-LM model with a vertical long-run Phillips curve and backward-looking inflation expectations. However, it does not lead to instability in several large multicountry econometric models, primarily because these models have nonvertical long-run Phillips curves. Nominal interest rate pegging leads to price level and output indeterminacy in a model with staggered contracts and rational expectations. However, when a class of money supply rules with interest rate smoothing is introduced, and interest rate pegging is viewed as the limit of interest rate smoothing, the price level and output are determinate.

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