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Monetary policy: why money matters, and interest rates don’t

Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012

rate. Money’s role in monetary policy has been tertiary, at best. Indeed, several influential economists have suggested … that money is irrelevant for monetary policy. They suggest that central banks can control inflation by (i) controlling a … rate in order to exert greater control over longer-term rates. I offer an alternative perspective: namely, that money is …

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The efficient market hypothesis and identification in structural VARs

Sarno, Lucio; Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003

Structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models are commonly used to investigate the effect of structural shocks on economic variables. The identifying restrictions imposed in many of these exercises have been criticized in the literature. This paper extends this literature by showing that if the...

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A new federal funds rate target series : september 27, 1982 - december 31, 1993

Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2005

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When did the FOMC begin targeting the federal funds rate? : What the verbatim transcripts tell us

Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource],

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Open market operations and the federal funds rate

Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2005

"The Fed's ability to control the federal funds rate stems from its ability to alter the supply of liquidity in the overnight market through open market operations. This paper uses daily data compiled by the author from the records of the Trading Desk of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over...

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Monetary policy in theory and practice : proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis

Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2001

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Monetary policy transparency : transparent about what?

Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Whatś unique about the federal funds rate? : Evidence from a spectral perspective

Sarno, Lucio (contributor); Thornton, Daniel L. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The relationship between the federal funds rate and the Fed's federal funds rate target: is it open market or open mouth operations?

Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

It is widely believed that the Fed controls the funds rate by altering the degree of pressure in the reserve market through open market operations when it changes its target for the federal funds rate. Recently, however, several economists have suggested that open market operations may not be...

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Identifying the liquidity effect: the case of nonborrowed reserves

Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1996

Despite the fact that efforts to identify it empirically have largely been futile, the liquidity effect plays a central role in conventional monetary theory and policy. Recently, however, an increasing volume of empirical work [Christiano and Eichenbaum (1992a,b), Christiano, Eichenbaum and...

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