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important benefits and is the responsibility of a central bank. Achieving price stability in a complex and uncertain environment … involves a credible commitment to a nominal anchor with a strong response to inflation and pre-emptive leaning against an … overheating economy. Associated challenges imply that central bank communication and transparency are key elements of monetary …
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This paper combines new data and a narrative approach to identify shocks to political pressure on the Federal Reserve. From archival records, I build a data set of personal interactions between U.S. Presidents and Fed officials between 1933 and 2016. Since personal interactions do not...
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whether the central bank chooses to buy domestic or foreign assets, thus resulting in transfers either within or between … compensates for losses (the structure of indemnification agreements). Data from the Federal Reserve, the Eurosystem, and the Bank … of England show that maximum annual losses are between 0.3 and 1.5 percent of GDP. By contrast, the Swiss National Bank …
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This paper uses evidence from the Federal Open Market Committee's Summary of Economic Projections to show that US monetary policymakers have objectives over unemployment and inflation outcomes that are not well-approximated through a conventional quadratic loss function. Rather, policymakers...
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central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital currency (CBDC) include transaction efficiency …
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Lucas (1972) is the pathbreaking analysis of the neutrality and temporary non-neutrality of money. But our central banks set interest rate targets, and do not even pretend to control money supplies. How is inflation determined under an interest rate target?
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We document regime change in the U.S. Treasury market post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC): dealers switched from a net short to a net long position in the Treasury market. We first derive bounds on Treasury yields that account for dealer balance sheet costs, which we call the net short and net...
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt … on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the reliability of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on … Euro Area countries. For comparison we also estimate the fiscal consequences of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England …
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Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand … unprecedented government bailout of the central bank, and resulted in loss of shareholder control over the central bank …
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We conduct a systematic analysis of the costs and benefits of large-scale securities purchases, using the Federal Reserve's QE4 program as a concrete example. This program was initiated at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 and continued for two years, leading to a doubling of the Fed's...
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