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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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Frontiers of real-time data analysis

Croushore, Dean - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2008

This paper describes the existing research (as of February 2008) on real-time data analysis, divided into five areas: (1) data revisions; (2) forecasting; (3) monetary policy analysis; (4) macroeconomic research; and (5) current analysis of business and financial conditions. In each area,...

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A real-time data set for macroeconomists

Croushore, Dean; Stark, Tom - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1999

This paper presents the concept and uses of a real-time data set that can be used by economists for testing the robustness of published econometric results, for analyzing policy, and for forecasting. The data set consists of vintages, or snapshots, of the major macroeconomic data available at...

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Is macroeconomic research robust to alternative data sets?

Croushore, Dean; Stark, Tom - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2002

This paper uses a real-time data set to analyze data revisions and to test the robustness of published econometric results. The data set consists of vintages, or snapshots, of the major macroeconomic data available at quarterly intervals in real time. The paper illustrates why such data may...

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A real-time data set for marcoeconomists: does the data vintage matter?

Croushore, Dean; Stark, Tom - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1999

This paper presents a real-time data set that can be used by economists for testing the robustness of published econometric results, for analyzing policy, and for forecasting. The data set consists of vintages, or snapshots, of the major macroeconomic data available at quarterly intervals in...

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Fiscal policy: ex ante and ex post

Croushore, Dean; van Norden, Simon - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

The surge in fiscal deficits since 2008 has put a renewed focus on the authors’ understanding of fiscal policy. The interaction of fiscal and monetary policy during this period has also been the subject of much discussion and analysis. This paper gives new insight into past fiscal policy and...

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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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