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COVID Response : The Municipal Liquidity Facility

Haughwout, Andrew; Hyman, Benjamin; Shachar, Or - 2021

responsibilities. In April 2020, the Federal Reserve announced the establishment of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to help …

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The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity : Evidence from Federal Lending Cutoffs during COVID-19

Haughwout, Andrew; Hyman, Benjamin; Shachar, Or - 2021

We estimate the option value of municipal liquidity by studying bond market activity and public sector hiring decisions … eligibility population cutoffs introduced by the federal sector’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to study the effects of an … emergency liquidity option on yields, primary debt issuance, and public sector employment. We find that while the announcement …

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Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves

Afonso, Gara - 2020

Methods of monetary policy implementation continue to change. The level of reserve supply—scarce, abundant, or somewhere in between—has implications for the efficiency and effectiveness of an implementation regime. The money market events of September 2019 highlight the need for an...

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Central Bank Macroeconomic Forecasting during the Global Financial Crisis : The European Central Bank and Federal Reserve Bank of New York Experiences

Alessi, Lucia - 2014

This paper documents macroeconomic forecasting during the global financial crisis by two key central banks: the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort between the two institutions, allowing us to study the time-stamped...

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The FRBNY Staff Underlying Inflation Gauge : UIG

Amstad, Marlene - 2014

Monetary policymakers and long-term investors would benefit greatly from a measure of underlying inflation that uses all relevant information, is available in real time, and forecasts inflation better than traditional underlying inflation measures such as core inflation measures. This paper...

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Real Time Underlying Inflation Gauges for Monetary Policymakers

Amstad, Marlene - 2010

Central banks analyze a wide range of data to obtain better measures of underlying inflationary pressures. Factor models have widely been used to formalize this procedure. Using a dynamic factor model this paper develops a measure of underlying inflation (UIG) at time horizons of relevance for...

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