Remarks at the Economic Club of New York, New York City.

Remarks at the IIF Annual Meeting of Latin America Chief Executives, Santiago, Chile.

Remarks at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Jackson Hole Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

In the past few years, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has been using forward guidance about the federal funds rate in a more explicit way than ever before. This paper explores the market reaction to the forward guidance, with particular focus on the use of calendar dates and economic...

Since December 2008, the Federal Reserve's traditional policy instrument, the target federal funds rate, has been effectively at its lower bound of zero. In order to further ease the stance of monetary policy as the economic outlook deteriorated, the Federal Reserve purchased substantial...