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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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Recent U.S. Treasury yields have been constrained to some extent by the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates. In modeling these yields, we compare the performance of a standard affine Gaussian dynamic term structure model (DTSM), which ignores the ZLB, and a shadow-rate DTSM, which...
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Previous macro-finance term structure models (MTSMs) imply that macroeconomic state variables are spanned by (i.e., perfectly correlated with) model-implied bond yields. However, this theoretical implication appears inconsistent with regressions showing that much macroeconomic variation is...
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To support the economy, the Federal Reserve amassed a large portfolio of long-term bonds. We assess the Fed’s associated interest rate risk — including potential losses to its Treasury securities holdings and declines in remittances to the Treasury. Unlike past examinations of this interest...
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and destabilized the economy. Had monetary policy reacted less aggressively to perceived unemployment gaps, inflation … activist policies would have been more effective at stabilizing both inflation and unemployment. We argue that policymakers … the natural rate of unemployment during the late 1960s and 1970s on the formation of expectations and macroeconomic …
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and destabilized the economy. Had monetary policy reacted less aggressively to perceived unemployment gaps, inflation … activist policies would have been more effective at stabilizing both inflation and unemployment. We argue that policymakers … the natural rate of unemployment during the late 1960s and 1970s on the formation of expectations and macroeconomic …
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