Are the recessionary consequences of oil-price shocks due to oil-price shocks themselves or to contractionary monetary policies that arise in response to inflation concerns engendered by rising oil prices? Can systematic monetary policy be used to alleviate the consequences of oil shocks on the...

Using survey-based measures of future U.S. economic activity from the Livingston Survey and the Survey of Professional Forecasters, the authors study how changes in expectations, and their interaction with monetary policy, contribute to fluctuations in macroeconomic aggregates. They find that...

2014 U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, Initiative on Global Markets, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, February 28, 2014, New York, NY President Charles I. Plosser discusses his views on the FOMC's forward guidance, which seeks to inform the public about the future path of monetary...

President Charles Plosser offers his views on growth, unemployment, and inflation expectations. He also discusses why the Fed faces a communications challenge with the economy so close to the unemployment threshold of 6.5 percent. He then explains why he favors the Fed providing more information...

This paper studies the dynamics of a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model near the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates. In addition to the standard targeted-inflation equilibrium, we consider a deflation equilibrium as well as a Markov sunspot...

Council on Foreign Relations, May 8, 2014, New York, NY President Charles Plosser outlines his views that monetary policy transparency and forward guidance could be enhanced if the central bank would be more explicit about its reaction function.

Presented by Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Capital Markets in the Post-Crisis Environment, Global Interdependence Center and the Bank of Finland Helsinki, Finland, June 6, 2011