Monetary Policy


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October 13, 2010 An Afternoon @ The Fed
Interested in supplementing your students' knowledge in the role, functions and operations of the Federal Reserve? Then join us at the Baltimore Branc ...
August 19, 2010 Changes in Monetary Policy and the Variation in Interest Rate Changes Across Credit Markets

This article uses principal component methods to assess the importance of changes in the federal funds rate in driving interest rate changes across ...

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August 19, 2010 Monetary Policy with Interest on Reserves

Since the fall of 2008, the amount of outstanding reserves on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has increased from about 100 billion dollars to m ...

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August 19, 2010 Inflation Measure, Taylor Rules, and the Greenspan-Bernanke Years

Recent research has emphasized that the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan was forward looking, smoothed interest rates, and focused on ...

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August 19, 2010 Richmond Fed's Economic Quarterly Examines Monetary Policy During Greenspan Era

In the new issue of Economic Quarterly Yash Mehra and Bansi Sawhney examine whether monetary policy actions during the Greenspan era, in particular ...

June 11, 2010 Introduction to the Special Issue on the Diamond-Dybvig Model

This special issue of the Economic Quarterly is dedicated to the 1983 model of bank runs developed by Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. Their mode ...

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June 11, 2010 Bailouts

Despite the cogent criticism that "bailing out" insolvent firms creates moral hazard, bailouts often occur in the aftermath of bank runs and other ...

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June 11, 2010 On the Fundamental Reasons for Bank Fragility

A substantial body of literature has now developed as a result of efforts to identify the fundamental reasons for the fragility of financial interm ...

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June 11, 2010 Inside-Money Theory after Diamond and Dybvig

In this article, I discuss the broad influence of Diamond and Dybvig (1983) in the field of money and banking. My review is centered on two aspect ...

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June 11, 2010 Monetary Theory and Electronic Money: Reflections on the Kenyan Experience

This article uses a class of models of money and the payments system to inform an analysis of mobile banking in the context of rapid expansion of M ...

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