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Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the contributions of monetary and fiscal policy to postwar economic recoveries. We find that the Federal Reserve typically responds to downturns with prompt and large reductions in interest rates. Discretionary fiscal policy, in contrast, rarely reacts before the trough in...

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Crunch Time : Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy

Greenlaw, David - 2013

Countries with high debt loads are vulnerable to an adverse feedback loop in which doubts by lenders lead to higher sovereign interest rates which in turn make the debt problems more severe. We analyze the recent experience of advanced economies using both econometric methods and case studies...

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The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy

Romer, Christina D.; Romer, David H. - 2022

functioning of the economy and the effects of policy. We document the changes in beliefs using contemporaneous discussions of the … economy and policy by monetary and fiscal policymakers and, for the period since the late 1960s, using the Federal Reserve …'s internal forecasts. We find that policymakers' understanding of the economy has not exhibited steady improvement. Instead, the …

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Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2010

The paper argues that many of the exaggerated claims that globalization has been an important factor in lowering inflation in recent years just do not hold up. Globalization does, however, have the potential to be stabilizing for individual economies and has been a key factor in promoting...

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Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises : How it Matters and Why

Romer, Christina D. - 2019

In OECD countries over the period 1980–2017, countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios responded to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy and suffered much less severe aftermaths. Two lines of evidence together suggest that the relationship between the debt ratio and the...

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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021

This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...

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The Missing Transmission Mechanism in the Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression

Romer, Christina D. - 2013

-articulated and documented transmission mechanism of monetary shocks to the real economy. It begins by reviewing the challenge to …

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A New Data Set on Monetary Policy : the Economic Forecasts of Individual Members of the FOMC

Romer, David H. - 2010

This paper describes a new data set of the forecasts of output growth, inflation, and unemployment prepared by individual members of the Federal Open Market Committee. The paper discusses the scope of the data set, possibilities for extending it, and some potential uses. It offers a preliminary...

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Credit Channel or Credit Actions? an Interpretation of the Postwar Transmission Mechanism

Romer, Christina D. - 2008

This paper shows that the disproportionate impact of tight monetary policy on banks' ability to lend is largely the consequence of Federal Reserve actions aimed at reducing bank loans directly, rather than an inherent feature of the monetary transmission mechanism. We provide two types of...

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Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2006

inflation targeting range should be set and how it should respond to changes in the nature of shocks to the economy …

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