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To conduct academic research on the federal funds (fed funds) market, historically one of the most important financial markets in the U.S., some empirical economists have used market level measures published by the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY). To obtain more...
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With short-term interest rates at the zero lower bound, forward guidance has become a key tool for central bankers, and …
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Since the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) began announcing its policy decisions in 1994, U.S. stock returns have on average been more than thirty times larger on announcement days than on other days. Surprisingly, these abnormal returns are accrued before the policy announcement. The excess...
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the model for theoretical and quantitative analyses of policy issues facing modern central banks. …
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acquired by central banks, and changes in the interest rate paid on reserves. We first extend a standard New Keynesian model to … allow a role for the central bank’s balance sheet in equilibrium determination and then consider the connections between … the strict sense and targeted asset purchases by a central bank, arguing that, according to our model, while the former is …
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Federal Reserve began to establish or expand Temporary Reciprocal Currency Arrangements with fourteen other central banks …. These central banks had the capacity to use the swap facilities to provide dollar liquidity to institutions in their …, suggests that the dollar swap lines among central banks were effective at reducing the dollar funding pressures abroad and the …
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Central banks analyze a wide range of data to obtain better measures of underlying inflationary pressures. Factor …
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sources of (potentially time-varying) credit spreads and to allow a role for the central bank's balance sheet in determining … prescriptions and to consider additional dimensions of central bank policy--variations in the size and composition of the central …
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. The supply of dollars by the Federal Reserve to foreign central banks via reciprocal currency arrangements (swap lines … capital and partly to heightened counterparty credit risk. Central bank interventions helped reduce the funding liquidity risk …
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and the optimal policy of a central bank in response to both idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks. In particular, we … the market ex post. We show that a central bank should use different tools to manage different types of shocks …
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