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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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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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Do Markets Care Who Chairs the Central Bank?

Kuttner, Kenneth N. - 2007

This paper assesses the effects of central bank governor appointments on financial market expectations of monetary policy. To measure these effects, we assemble a new dataset of appointment announcements from 15 countries, and conduct an event study analysis on exchange rates, bond yields, and...

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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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