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Central banks should not be in the business of trying to prick asset price bubbles. Bubbles generally arise out of some … bubbles and more of the third in real estate booms). Accordingly, the connection between monetary conditions and the rise of … bubbles is rather tenuous, and anything short of inducing a recession by tightening credit conditions prohibitively is …
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the growth of asset price bubbles. Finally we examine the policies of the former chairman of the Fed Alan Greenspan (1987 …
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This chapter utilizes the social fabric matrix approach (SFM-A) to provide a detailed description of the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) daily operations and the recent financial crisis. The SFM of the Fed's operations presents the primary components- major norms, institutions, technologies- relevant...
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The paper gives an overview over issues concerning the role of financial stability in monetary policy and the relation between banking supervision and central banking. Following a brief account of developments in the European Monetary Union since its creation, the systematic treatment contains...
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We use a predictable change in the intraday volatility of index futures to identify the effect of stock returns on monetary policy. This identification approach relies on a weaker set of assumptions than required under identification through heteroskedasticity based on lower frequency data. Our...
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My paper, “Does the Fed control interest rates?” is in the 2013 Review of Asset Pricing Studies (Volume 3, pp. 180-199). The paper finds that the Fed controls the Federal Funds (FF) rate (the overnight rate on interbank borrowing of reserves). Other short-term rates are related to FF, but...
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The effects of the 2008 global financial crisis have confirmed the increasing interaction between global financial conditions, on the one hand, and domestic financial intermediation and the effectiveness of the central bank's monetary policy, on the other. This paper details Malaysia's...
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The Federal Reserve System or the Fed is one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. Founded by the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, the Fed has the responsibility of setting the monetary policy of the U.S. The Fed's actions affect the money supply in the U.S. market which has a direct...
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In this paper, we analyze the long-run behavior and short-run dynamics of stock markets across some selected developed and emerging economies - namely the United States, the Euro Area, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Thailand and Brazil - in the Cointegrated...
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In this paper, we analyze the long-run behavior and short-run dynamics of stock markets across some selected developed and emerging economies – namely the United States, the Euro Area, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Thailand and Brazil – in the Cointegrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009779040