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George W. Evans and Bruce McGough: Interest Rate Pegs in New Keynesian Models: "John Cochrane asks: Do higher interest rates raise or lower inflation?'...

...We find that pegging the interest rate at a higher level will induce instability and most likely lead to falling inflation and output over time. Eventually, this will precipitate a change of policy...

http://pages.uoregon.edu/gevans/InterestRatePegs_26april2016.pdf

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