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Using extraneous information to analyze monetary policy in transition economies

Gavin, William T.; Kemme, David M. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

Empirical work in macroeconomics is plagued by small sample size and large idiosyncratic variation. This problem is especially severe in the case of transition economies. We use a mixed estimation method incorporating information from OECD country data to estimate the parameters of a...

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The practice of central bank intervention: looking under the hood

Neely, Christopher J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

This article first reviews methods of foreign exchange intervention and then presents evidence - focusing on survey results - on the mechanics of such intervention. Types of intervention, instruments, timing, amounts, motivation, secrecy and perceptions of efficacy are discussed.

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Forecasting inflation and growth: do private forecasts match those of policymakers?

Gavin, William T.; Mandal, Rachel J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

FOMC projections are important because they provide information for evaluating current monetary policy intentions and because they indicate what FOMC members think will be the likely consequence of their policies. Results here show that the Blue Chip consensus forecasts are a good proxy for the...

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The monetary instrument matters

Gavin, William T.; Keen, Benjamin D.; Pakko, Michael R. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2005

This paper revisits the issue of money growth versus the interest rate as the instrument of monetary policy. Using a … of inflation relative to money growth depends on whether the central bank follows a money growth rule or an interest rate … rule. With a money growth rule, inflation is not persistent and the price level is much more volatile than the money supply …

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The Federal Reserve responds to crises: September 11th was not the first

Neely, Christopher J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003

A primary purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was to prevent banking panics by establishing the Federal Reserve System to function as a lender of last resort. Other types of financial crisis require similar response, however, and the Federal Reserve has repeatedly used its capacity to...

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Year-end seasonality in one-month LIBOR derivatives

Neely, Christopher J.; Winters, Drew B. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2005

We examine the markets for one-month LIBOR futures contracts and options on those futures for a year-end price effect consistent with the previously identified year-end rate increase in one-month LIBOR. The cash market rate increase appears in forward rates and derivative prices, which allows...

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What do New-Keynesian Phillips Curves imply for price level targeting?

Dittmar, Robert; Gavin, William T. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1999

This paper extends the analysis of price level targeting to a model including the New-Keynesian Phillips Curve. We examine the inflation-output variability tradeoffs implied by optimal inflation and price level rules. In previous work with the Neoclassical Phillips Curve, we found that the...

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Inflation targeting: why it works and how to make it work better

Gavin, William T. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003

because of a change in its day-to-day behavior in money markets or the way it reacts to news about unemployment or real GDP …

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The nominal facts and the October 1979 policy change

Gavin, William T.; Kydland, Finn E. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

Gavin and Kydland (1999) calculated the cyclical properties of money and prices for the periods before and after the … inflation, the lag from money growth to inflation, and lag from money growth to nominal GDP growth. Generally, the monetary …-correlations between money growth and inflation. …

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Gold, fiat money and price stability

Bordo, Michael D.; Dittmar, Robert; Gavin, William T. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006

The classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But short-run price variability led critics of the gold standard to propose reforms that look much like modern versions of price-path targeting. This paper uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to...

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