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Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. Banks established connections to...
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next three months. A comprehensive bank-level database reveals the public responded to signals sent by regulators' actions …
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minimize the length and severity of the recession, would require a stronger commitment to low interest rates for an extended …
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This paper assumes that a central bank commits itself to maintaining an inflation target and then asks what measure of … the inflation rate the central bank should use if it wants to maximize economic stability. The paper first formalizes this … that a central bank that wants to achieve maximum stability of economic activity should use a price index that gives …
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Operating in individual cities, U.S. clearinghouses were the closest thing to a central bank before 1914, but they only … assisted banks that chose to join the association. Using an annual bank-level database for seven states between 1880 and 1910 …
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the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal burden by influencing different terms in the government resource … seignorage is generated and subject to what constraints, (iii) whether central bank liabilities should count as public debt, (iv …) how central bank assets create income risk, and whether or not this threatens its solvency, and (v) how the central bank …
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instrument of monetary policy. We show that by paying an appropriate rate on reserves, the central bank can pin the price level …
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via contractions in credit and disruption in financial markets. Managing the size and composition of the central bank …
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Established by a three person committee in 1914, the structure of the Federal Reserve System has remained essentially unchanged ever since, despite criticism at the time and over ensuing decades. With Congress now considering reforms to the System, this paper examines the original selection of...
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style of central banking affects central banks' solvency. A central bank is insolvent if its requirement to pay dividends to … Bank), and exchange-rate risk (central banks of small open economies). We find that a central bank that pays dividends … circumstances, the dividend will be negative, meaning that the government is making a payment to the bank. If the charter does not …
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