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Fiscal Histories
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of real primary surpluses. Monetary policy remains important. The central bank can set an interest rate target, which determines the path of expected inflation, while news about the...
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Sticky Discount Rates
Fukui, Masao; Gormsen, Niels; Huber, Kilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected inflation directly lower firms' real discount rates and thereby raise real investment. We...
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Inflation Past, Present and Future : Fiscal Shocks, Fed Response, and Fiscal Limits
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Our current inflation stemmed from a fiscal shock. The Fed is slow to react. Why? Will the Fed's slow reaction spur … high real interest rates. Price stickiness means inflation will persist past an initial shock. To reduce inflation, fiscal …
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Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks : A Natural Language Approach
Aruoba, S. Borağan; Drechsel, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a novel method for the identification of monetary policy shocks. By applying natural language processing techniques to documents that Federal Reserve staff prepare in advance of policy decisions, we capture the Fed's information set. Using machine learning techniques, we then predict...
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Monetary Policy without Moving Interest Rates : The Fed Non-Yield Shock
Boehm, Christoph E.; Kroner, T. Niklas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-announcement times. We use a heteroskedasticity-based procedure to estimate a "Fed non-yield shock", which is orthogonal to yield changes … and is identified from excess volatility in the S&P 500 and various dollar exchange rates. A positive non-yield shock …-yield shock is essentially uncorrelated with previous monetary policy shocks and its effects are large in comparison. Its strong …
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Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years
Romer, Christina; Romer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
inflation in the expected directions. Analysis of available policy records suggests that a contractionary monetary shock likely …
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Quantifying the Costs and Benefits of Quantitative Easing
Levin, Andrew T.; Lu, Brian L.; Nelson, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a systematic analysis of the costs and benefits of large-scale securities purchases, using the Federal Reserve's QE4 program as a concrete example. This program was initiated at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 and continued for two years, leading to a doubling of the Fed's...
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The Macroeconomic Effects of the Federal Reserve's Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies
Swanson, Eric T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
I separately identify and estimate the effects of the Federal Reserve's federal funds rate, forward guidance, and large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) policies on the U.S. economy. I extend the high-frequency identification strategy of Bauer and Swanson (2023b) for monetary policy VARs by allowing...
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Monetary-Based Asset Pricing : A Mixed-Frequency Structural Approach
Bianchi, Francesco; Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Ma, Sai - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We integrate a high-frequency monetary event study into a mixed-frequency macro-finance model and structural estimation …. The model and estimation allow for jumps at Fed announcements in investor beliefs, providing granular detail on why … financial market risk. However, the structural estimation also finds that much of the causal impact of monetary policy on …
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The Long and Variable Lags of Monetary Policy : Evidence from Disaggregated Price Indices
Aruoba, S. Borağan; Drechsel, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how monetary policy affects subcomponents of the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI) using local projections. Following a monetary policy contraction, the response of aggregate PCEPI turns significantly negative after over three years. There are stark differences in...
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