This article compares movements in the federal funds rate from 1987 through 1997 with predictions from the federal funds market and a Taylor rule using unemployment and core CPI data. Although a Taylor rule using revised data does about as well as the futures market predictions, the best...

This paper explores how exogenous impulses to monetary policy affect the yield curve for nominally risk-free bonds. We identify monetary policy shocks using three distinct variants of the identified VAR methodology. All three approaches imply similar patterns for the effect of monetary policy...

We present a model embodying moderate amounts of nominal rigidities which accounts for the observed inertia in inflation and persistence in output. The key features of our model are those that prevent a sharp rise in marginal costs after an expansionary shock to monetary policy. Of these...

A speech delivered on February 4, 2014, at the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, MI.

Remarks by Charles L. Evans President and Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago U.S. Monetary Policy Forum University Club of New York New York, New York

Remarks by Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference Banque de France - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago "Asset Price Bubbles and Monetary Policy" Paris, France

Remarks by Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer,Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Harper College Economic Forum Harper College Palatine, Illinois