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This article is based on the author’s Homer Jones Memorial Lecture delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 2, 2014.
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This article describes the joint evolution of Federal Reserve policy and the study of the impact of monetary policy surprises on high-frequency asset prices. Since the 1970s, the Federal Open Market Committee has clarified its objectives and modified its procedures to become more transparent and...
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By providing guidance about future economic developments, central banks can affect private sector expectations and decisions. This can improve welfare by reducing private sector forecast errors, but it can also magnify the impact of noise in central bank forecasts. I employ a model of...
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The Federal Open Market Committee has recently attempted to stimulate economic growth using unconventional methods. Prominent among these is quantitative easing (QE)—the purchase of a large quantity of longer-term debt on the assumption that it will reduce long-term yields through the...
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monetary policy returns to normal. The first regime is a return to the high and volatile inflation rate of the 1970s. The … inflation policy that characterized the U.S. economy from 1983 to 2007, a period known as the Great Moderation. The third regime …, consumer price index inflation, the policy rate, and the 10-year government bond rate. These models are used to forecast the U …
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