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Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets

Acharya, Viral V.; Chauhan, Rahul S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

in 2017, there was no commensurate shrinkage of these claims on liquidity. Consequently, the financial sector was left … more sensitive to potential liquidity shocks, with weaker-capitalized banks most exposed. This necessitated Fed liquidity … provision in September 2019 and again in March 2020. Liquidity-risk-exposed banks suffered the most drawdowns and the largest …

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Interest Rate Implications for Fiscal and Monetary Policies : A Postscript on the Government Budget Constraint

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1982

An earlier paper by the author investigated the quantitative implications, for the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, of a model treating the determination of long-term interest rates by explicitly imposing the market clearing equilibrium condition that the quantity of bonds issued...

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The Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates : Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1979

The object of this paper is to bring to bear on financial-non financial interactions a richer approach to modeling the determination of long-term interest rates. in a series of previous papers. I have developed an alternative model based explicitly on the truism that any factor affecting...

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Contingent Credit Under Stress

Acharya, Viral V.; Jager, Maximilian; Steffen, Sascha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit lines, their significance in managing corporate liquidity, and the …

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Implementation of Monetary Policy : How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2010

variation in the supply of central bank liabilities. In effect, the announcement effect has displaced the liquidity effect as …-system, or Japan. Structural estimates of banks' reserve demand, at a frequency corresponding to the required reserve maintenance … period, show no interest elasticity for the U.S. or the Euro-system (but some elasticity for Japan). The chapter next …

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Monetary Policy

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2000

Monetary policy is one of the two principal means (the other being fiscal policy) by which government authorities in a market economy regularly influence the pace and direction of overall economic activity, importantly including not only the level of aggregate output and employment but also the...

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The Role of Interest Rates in Federal Reserve Policymaking

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2000

Most central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve System, implement their monetary policy by setting interest rates. This paper reviews the major changes that have taken place along the way from the Federal Reserve's interest rate-based policy structure of the 1960s to the interest...

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Decoupling at the Margin : The Threat to Monetary Policy from the Electronic Revolution in Banking

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2000

The threat to monetary policy from the electronic revolution in banking is the possibility of a decoupling' of the operations of the central bank from markets in which financial claims are created and transacted in ways that, at some operative margin, affect the decisions of households and firms...

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The Future of Monetary Policy : The Central Bank as an Army With Only a Signal Corps

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1999

The influence of monetary policy over interest rates, and via interest rates over nonfinancial economic activity, stems from the central bank's role as a monopolist over the supply of bank reserves. Several trends already visible in the financial markets of many countries today threaten to...

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The Rise and Fall of Money Growth Targets as Guidelines for U.S. Monetary Policy

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1996

A familiar question raised by the Federal Reserve System's evolving use of money growth targets over the past twenty years is whether monetary policymakers had sound economic reasons for changing their procedures as they did -- either in adopting money growth targets in the first place, or in...

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