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This paper addresses the possible role of bond prices as operating or intermediate targets for monetary policy. The paper begins with a brief review of the mechanisms through which a central bank could, in theory, influence long-term interest rates, and continues with a brief narrative overview...
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"Financial systems are inherently fragile because of the very function which makes them valuable: liquidity … transformation. Regulatory reforms can strengthen the financial system and decrease the risk of liquidity crises, but they cannot … between monetary policy and liquidity transformation 'optimal' monetary policy would consist of a modified Taylor rule in …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that positive money supply shocks drive short-term interest rates down. We then present a quantitative, general equilibrium model which is consistent with the hypothesis. The two key features of our model are that (i) money...
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liquidity effects. This paper discusses the basic frictions and mechanisms underlying this new class of models and investigates … long-lasting, quantitatively significant liquidity effects, as well as persistent increases in aggregate economic activity …
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Conventional wisdom holds that unanticipated expansionary monetary policy shocks cause transient but persistent decreases in real and nominal interest rates. However a number of econometric studies argue that the evidence favors the opposite view, namely that these shocks actually raise, rather...
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