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Forward guidance and macroeconomic outcomes since the financial crisis

Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Justiniano, … - 2016

This paper studies the effects of FOMC forward guidance. We begin by using high frequency identification and direct measures of FOMC private information to show that puzzling responses of private sector forecasts to movements in federal funds futures rates on FOMC announcement days can be...

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Monetary policy in a financial crisis

Christiano, Lawrence J. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Monetary Policy in a Financial Crisis

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher; Roldos, Jorge E. - 2021

What are the economic effects of an interest rate cut when an economy is in the midst of a financial crisis? Under what … ffects? We answer these questions in a general class of open economy models, where a financial crisis is modeled as a time … the traded good sector and in adjusting the rate at which that output can be used in other parts of the economy, then a …

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Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2011

The US government has recently conducted large scale purchases of assets and implemented policies that reduced the cost of funds to financial institutions. Arguably these policies have helped to correct credit market dysfunctions, allowing interest rate spreads to shrink and output to begin a...

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The Simple Analytics of Monetary Policy : A Post-Crisis Approach

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2013

The standard workhorse models of monetary policy now commonly in use, both for teaching macroeconomics to students and for supporting policymaking within many central banks, are incapable of incorporating the most widely accepted accounts of how the 2007-9 financial crisis occurred and incapable...

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Optimal Monetary Policy in a 'Sudden Stop'

Braggion, Fabio - 2010

In the wake of the 1997-98 financial crises, interest rates in Asia were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply. We describe an environment in which this is the optimal monetary policy. The optimality of the immediate rise in the interest rate is an example of the theory of the second...

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Has the Financial Crisis Permanently Changed the Practice of Monetary Policy? Has it Changed the Theory of Monetary Policy?

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2014

I argue in this paper that one of the two forms of hitherto unconventional monetary policy that many central banks have implemented in response to the 2007 financial crisis - large-scale asset purchases, or to put the matter more generically, use of the central bank's balance sheet as a distinct...

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Macroeconomic effects of Federal Reserve forward guidance

Campbell, Jeffrey R.; Evans, Charles; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; … - 2012

A large output gap accompanied by stable inflation close to its target calls for further monetary accommodation, but the zero lower bound on interest rates has robbed the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the usual tool for its provision. We examine how public statements of FOMC intentions...

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