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Crunch Time : Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy

Greenlaw, David - 2013

Countries with high debt loads are vulnerable to an adverse feedback loop in which doubts by lenders lead to higher sovereign interest rates which in turn make the debt problems more severe. We analyze the recent experience of advanced economies using both econometric methods and case studies...

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Subjective Intertemporal Substitution

Crump, Richard K. - 2020

We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS)—the response of expected consumption growth to changes …). This unique data set allows us to estimate the consumption Euler equation with no auxiliary assumptions on the properties … with the results of much of the literature. In addition, planned consumption displays excess sensitivity to expected income …

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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021

This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...

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Three lessons for monetary policy in a low-inflation era

Reifschneider, David Leon; Williams, John C. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 32 (2000) 4,2, pp. 936-966

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Inflation band targeting and optimal inflation contracts

Mishkin, Frederic S.; Westelius, Niklas J. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 40 (2008) 4, pp. 557-582

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Globalization, macroeconomic performance, and monetary policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 41 (2009), pp. 187-196

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Unprecedented Actions : The Federal Reserve's Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2015

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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Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem

Ito, Takatoshi - 2012

This paper reviews Japanese monetary policy over the last two decades with an emphasis on the experience of deflation from the mid-1990s. The paper is quite critical of the conduct of monetary policy, particularly from 1998 to 2003. The Bank of Japan's rhetoric was not helpful in fighting...

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Monetary Policy Frameworks and the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates

Mertens, Thomas M. - 2019

This paper applies a standard New Keynesian model to analyze the effects of monetary policy in the presence of a low natural rate of interest and a lower bound on interest rates. Under a standard inflation-targeting approach, inflation expectations will be anchored at a level below the inflation...

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Tying Down the Anchor : Monetary Policy Rules and the Lower Bound on Interest Rates

Mertens, Thomas M. - 2019

This paper uses a standard New Keynesian model to analyze the effects and implementation of various monetary policy frameworks in the presence of a low natural rate of interest and a lower bound on interest rates. Under a standard inflation-targeting approach, inflation expectations will be...

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