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Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional—deposit-taking—banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …
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and central bank conservatism on economic performance. Several striking conclusions emerge. In relatively centralized … of central bank conservatism. A radical-populist central banker who cares not at all about inflation (alternatively, who …
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The paper sets out and analyzes a simple model of money, banking, and price level determination. The model is first used to illustrate recent developments in the theory and analysis of banking, particularly the distinction between the portfolio management services provided by banks and their...
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In this paper, I discuss the implications for emerging countries of the adoption of central bank digital currencies …
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The paper generalizes the Taylor principle---the proposition that central banks can stabilize the macroeconomy by raising their interest rate instrument more than one-for-one in response to higher inflation---to an environment in which reaction coefficients in the monetary policy rule evolve...
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understanding the process by which sterilized central bank interventions are observed and interpreted by traders, and how this …
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Realizing that their traditional instruments were inadequate for responding to the crisis that began on 9 August 2007, Federal Reserve officials improvised. Beginning in mid-December 2007, they implemented a series of changes directed at ensuring that liquidity would be distributed to those...
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We show how to construct optimal policy projections in Ramses, the Riksbank's open-economy medium-sized DSGE model for forecasting and policy analysis. Bayesian estimation of the parameters of the model indicates that they are relatively invariant to alternative policy assumptions and supports...
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-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it … and powerful part of the central bank's toolkit since it has the ability to move financial markets, to enhance the …
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Should monetary policymakers take the staff forecast of the effects of policy actions as given, or should they attempt to include additional information? This paper seeks to shed light on this question by testing the usefulness of the FOMC's own forecasts. Twice a year, the FOMC makes forecasts...
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