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swap lines to provide central banks with cover for unwanted, but temporary accumulations of dollars and to provide foreign … central banks with dollar funds to finance their own interventions. The Treasury also began intervening in the market. The …
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The dollar’s depreciation during the early floating rate period, 1973–1981, was a symptom of the Great Inflation. In that environment, sterilized foreign exchange interventions were ineffective in halting the dollar’s decline, but they showed a limited ability to smooth dollar movements....
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It is well known that sunspot equilibria may arise under an interest-rate operating procedure in which the central bank …
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, sterilized foreign-exchange-market intervention did not provide central banks with a mechanism for systematically influencing …
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lender of last resort theory) in mounting rescue operations through the central bank. …
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What inflation rate should the central bank target? The authors address determinacy issues related to this question in … principle holds in this environment. If the central bank elects to target sector A and responds to price movements in this …
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This paper analyzes the restrictions necessary to ensure that the interest rate policy rule used by the central bank …
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We document increased central bank independence within the set of industrialized nations. This increased independence …
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This paper analyzes the individual bidding behavior of German banks in the money market auctions conducted by the ECB from the beginning of the third quarter of 2000 to the end of the first quarter of 2001. Our approach takes a variety of characteristics of the individual banks into account. In...
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Should monetary policy respond to asset prices? This paper analyzes this question from the vantage point of equilibrium determinacy.
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