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Money and capital: a quantitative analysis

Aruoba, S. Boragan; Waller, Christopher J.; Wright, Randall - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

We study the effects of money (anticipated inflation) on capital formation. Previous papers on this topic adopt reduced …-form approaches, putting money in the utility function or imposing cash in advance, but use otherwise frictionless models. We follow a … literature that is more explicit about the frictions making money essential. This introduces several new elements, including a …

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Real-time macroeconomic monitoring: real activity, inflation, and interactions

Aruoba, S. Boragan; Diebold, Francis X. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2010

The authors sketch a framework for monitoring macroeconomic activity in real-time and push it in new directions. In particular, they focus not only on real activity, which has received most attention to date, but also on inflation and its interaction with real activity. As for the recent...

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Sticky Prices Versus Monetary Frictions : An Estimation of Policy Trade-offs

Aruoba, S. Boragan - 2009

bilateral exchanges for which money is essential. The model is estimated and evaluated based on postwar U.S. data. We document … its money demand properties and determine the optimal long-run inflation rate that trades off the New Keynesian distortion … against the distortion caused by taxing money and hence transactions in the decentralized market. Target rates of -1% or less …

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Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions

Bordo, Michael D. - 2008

This paper examines the association between inflation, monetary policy and U.S. stock market conditions during the second half of the 20th century. We estimate a latent variable VAR to examine how macroeconomic and policy shocks affect the condition of the stock market. Further, we examine the...

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Monetary Policy and Asset Prices : A Look Back at Past U.S. Stock Market Booms

Bordo, Michael D. - 2004

, productivity, the price level, money and credit stocks during each episode. Two booms stand out in terms of their length and rate … consistent relationship between inflation and stock market booms, though booms have typically occurred when money and credit …

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Was the Great Depression a Watershed for American Monetary Policy?

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1997

The Great Depression changed the institutions governing monetary policy. These changes included the departure from the gold standard, an opening of a a new avenue for monetizing government debt, changes in the structure of the the Federal Reserve System, and new monetary powers of the Treasury....

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Banker Preferences, Interbank Connections, and the Enduring Structure of the Federal Reserve System

Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2015

Established by a three person committee in 1914, the structure of the Federal Reserve System has remained essentially unchanged ever since, despite criticism at the time and over ensuing decades. With Congress now considering reforms to the System, this paper examines the original selection of...

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When do stock market booms occur? the macroeconomic and policy environments of 20th century booms

Bordo, Michael D.; Wheelock, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006

This paper studies the macroeconomic conditions and policy environments under which stock market booms occurred among ten developed countries during the 20th Century. We find that booms tended to occur during periods of above-average growth of real output, and below-average and falling...

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Inflation, monetary policy and stock market conditions: quantitative evidence from a hybrid latent-variable VAR

Bordo, Michael D.; Dueker, Michael J.; Wheelock, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009

This paper examines the association between inflation, monetary policy and U.S. stock market conditions during the second half of the 20th century. We use a latent-variable VAR to estimate the impact of inflation and other macroeconomic shocks on a latent index of stock market conditions. Our...

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The great inflation: did the shadow know better?

Poole, William; Rasche, Robert H.; Wheelock, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2008

The Shadow Open Market Committee was formed in 1973 in response to rising inflation and the apparent unwillingness of U.S. policymakers to implement policies necessary to maintain price stability. This paper describes how the Committee's policy views differed from those of most Federal Reserve...

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