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A closer look at the Phillips curve using state-level data
Kumar, Anil; Orrenius, Pia - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
do not make a distinction between the relative impacts of short-term vs. long-term unemployment on wage inflation. Using …
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Navigating constraints: the evolution of Federal Reserve monetary policy, 1935-59
Carlson, Mark A.; Wheelock, David - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
to 1951, changes in required reserve ratios were the primary means by which the Fed responded to expected inflation. The … rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external pressures on the Fed …
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Deposit interest rate ceilings as credit supply shifters: bank level evidence on the effects of Regulation Q
Koch, Christoffer - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
frequently during the Great Inflation era due to fixed deposit rate ceilings. I estimate the effect of deposit rate ceilings …
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The zero lower bound and endogenous uncertainty
Plante, Michael; Richter, Alexander William; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
This paper documents a strong negative correlation between macroeconomic uncertainty and real GDP growth since the Great Recession. Prior to that event the correlation was weak, even when conditioning on recessions. At the same time, many central banks reduced their policy rate to its zero lower...
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Pricing-to-market and optimal interest rate policy
Cooke, Dudley - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
I study optimal interest rate policy in a small open economy with consumer search in the product market. When there are search frictions, firms price-to-market, with implications for the design of monetary policy. Country-specific shocks generate deviations from the law of one price for traded...
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Inflation targeting and the anchoring of inflation expectations: cross-country evidence from consensus forecasts
Davis, Jonathan Scott; Presno, Ignacio - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
Using survey data of inflation expectations across a 36 developed and developing countries, this paper examines whether … the adoption of inflation targeting has helped to anchor inflation expectations. We examine the response of inflation … expectations following a shock to inflation, inflation expectations, and oil prices. For the 13 countries that adopted inflation …
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The Federal Reserve engages the world (1970-2000): an insider's narrative of the transition to managed floating and financial turbulence
Truman, Edwin Malcolm - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
financial policy and analysis covering four areas: the emergence and taming of the great inflation, developments in US external …
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The boy who cried bubble: public warnings against riding bubbles
Asako, Yasushi; Ueda, Kozo - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
Attempts by governments to stop bubbles by issuing warnings seem unsuccessful. This paper examines the effects of public warnings using a simple model of riding bubbles. We show that public warnings against a bubble can stop it if investors believe that a warning is issued in a definite range of...
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Unprecedented actions: the Federal Reserve’s response to the global financial crisis in historical perspective
Mishkin, Frederic; White, Eugene - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
Interventions by the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 were generally viewed as unprecedented and in violation of the rules---notably Bagehot’s rule---that a central bank should follow to avoid the time-inconsistency problem and moral hazard. Reviewing the evidence for...
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Monetary policy shocks and foreign investment income: evidence from a large Bayesian VAR
Auer, Simone - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
This paper assesses the transmission of monetary policy in a large Bayesian vector autoregression based on the approach proposed by Banbura, Giannone and Reichlin (2010). The paper analyzes the impact of monetary policy shocks in the United States and Canada not only on a range of domestic...
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