Remarks at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Jackson Hole Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Remarks at the Swiss National Bank-International Monetary Fund Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.

This paper provides a baseline general-equilibrium model of optimal monetary policy among interdependent economies with monopolistic firms that set prices one period in advance. Strict adherence to inward-looking policy objectives such as the stabilization of domestic output cannot be optimal...

Emerging market economies often face sudden stops in capital inflows or reduced access to the international capital market. This paper analyzes what monetary policy should accomplish in such an event. Optimal monetary policy induces higher interest rates and exchange rate depreciation. The...

The U.S. dollar plays a key role in international trade invoicing along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports are invoiced in dollars; second, trade flows that do not involve the United States are often invoiced in dollars, a fact that has received relatively little...

Remarks at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Annual U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York City.

Remarks at 2010 CFA Institute Fixed Income Management Conference, Newport Beach, California.

Remarks at New York University's Stern School of Business, New York City.