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The zero lower bound on nominal interest rates has constrained the Federal Reserve’s setting of the overnight federal funds rate for over three years running. According to many macroeconomic models, such an extended period of being stuck at the zero bound has important implications for the...
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This paper forms the basis for Janet Yellen's Presidential address to the Western Economic Association International, delivered July 1, 2004, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Presentation to the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2012
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Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …
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Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …
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We tackle two questions in this paper: In the sovereign debt crisis, what moves the euro area inflation outlook and has the firm anchoring of medium to long-term inflation expectations been touched? Deriving densities from a new data set on options on the euro area harmonized index of consumer...
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This article assesses the importance of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates for the conduct of monetary policy. The article employs a small, forward-looking model developed by Fuhrer and Moore. The model is simulated under several policy rules that involve either high or low inflation...
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This paper uses Whiteman's(1986) frequency-domain optimization methodology to parameterize the precommitment period in a standard rational expectations policy design model. This allows researchers to adopt an empirical approach to the time consistency issue. That is, the operative commitment...
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