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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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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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Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy

Taylor, John B. - 2010

This paper focuses on simple rules for monetary policy which central banks have used in various ways to guide their interest rate decisions. Such rules, which can be evaluated using simulation and optimization techniques, were first derived from research on empirical monetary models with...

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Revealing the Secrets of the Temple : The Value of Publishing Central Bank Interest Rate Projections

Rudebusch, Glenn D. - 2006

The modern view of monetary policy stresses its role in shaping the entire yield curve of interest rates in order to achieve various macroeconomic objectives. A crucial element of this process involves guiding financial market expectations of future central bank actions. Recently, a few central...

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The Greenspan Era : Discretion, Rather Than Rules

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2006

What stands out in retrospect about U.S. monetary policy during the Greenspan Era is the ongoing movement away from mechanistic restrictions on the conduct of policy, together with a willingness on occasion to depart even from what more flexible guidelines dictated by contemporary conventional...

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The Use and Meaning of Words in Central Banking : Inflation Targeting, Credibility, and Transparency

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2002

Inflation targeting offers the promise of introducing to monetary policy a logic and consistency that some central banks' deliberations sorely missed in the past. At least in today's inherited monetary policymaking context, however, inflation targeting also serves two further objectives that are...

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