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Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System under Convertibility : The Roles of Crises and Path Dependence

Alston, Lee J. - 2000

We provide an analytical narrative of the political and economic causes and consequences of institutional changes in the Argentine banking system. We devote most of our attention to the privatization of the provincial banks. Our story differs from the prevailing wisdom in its stress on the key...

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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime

Paolera, Gerardo della - 2000

This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …

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Thirty Years of Currency Crises in Argentina : External Shocks or Domestic Fragility?

Kaminsky, Graciela - 2009

This paper examines Argentina's currency crises from 1970 to 2001, with particular attention to the role of domestic …

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International Borrowing and Macroeconomic Performance in Argentina

Dominguez, Kathryn M.E. - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the major economic events in Argentina from the adoption of the convertibility plan … currency board and capital flows, and the inescapable link between fiscal and monetary policy. Argentina inadvertently entered … late 1990s, when Argentina went into recession, it required some sort of stimulus -- either a loosening of monetary policy …

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Central Banks as Dollar Lenders of Last Resort : Implications for Regulation and Reserve Holdings

Das, Mitali; Gopinath, Gita; Kim, Taehoon; Stein, Jeremy C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...

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US Monetary Policy and the Return to Price Stability

Clarida, Richard H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time reaction to and interpretation of incoming data in 2021, and the pivot to raising rates and shrinking the balance sheet that commenced in 2022 and continues in 2023. Particular...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of the Federal Reserve's Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies

Swanson, Eric T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

I separately identify and estimate the effects of the Federal Reserve's federal funds rate, forward guidance, and large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) policies on the U.S. economy. I extend the high-frequency identification strategy of Bauer and Swanson (2023b) for monetary policy VARs by allowing...

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Policymakers' Uncertainty

Cieślak, Anna; Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Uncertainty is a ubiquitous concern emphasized by policymakers. We study how uncertainty affects decision-making by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We distinguish between the notion of Fed-managed uncertainty vis-a-vis uncertainty that emanates from within the economy and which the Fed...

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Federal Reserve Structure and the Production of Monetary Policy Ideas

Bordo, Michael D.; Prescott, Edward Simpson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on monetary policy over the 1960 - 2000 period. We document the introduction of monetarism, rational expectations, credibility, transparency, and other monetary policy...

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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis

Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the effectiveness of forward guidance when central banks have imperfect credibility. Exploiting unique survey-based measures of expected inflation, output growth, and interest rates, we estimate a small-scale New Keynesian model for the United States and other G7 countries...

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