Recall the Application About Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Views on How

question 13

Multiple Choice

Recall the Application about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's views on how to fight a liquidity trap to answer the following question(s) .
-Recall the Application. Before becoming Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke argued that the Bank of Japan should have committed to increasing inflation as a response to the Japanese liquidity trap. Doing this would allow for

• A) real interest rates to be negative.
• B) real interest rates to increase even if nominal rates decreased.
• C) nominal interest rates to be negative.
• D) both nominal and real interest rates to decrease and become negative.

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