This article discusses a technical aspect of the Federal Reserve's monetary targeting procedure that has come to be known as "base drift." The Fed has been announcing larger ranges for the growth of M1 and other monetary aggregates since 1975. These ranges have been expressed in terms of rates...

Of the many studies analyzing the Federal Reserve's post-October 6, 1979 nonborrowed reserve (NBR) operating procedure, none has focused upon weekly money market dynamics under rational expectations. This paper employs the rational expectations assumption in an explicit institutional model of...

This article discusses a technical aspect of the Federal Reserve's monetary targeting procedure that has come to be known as “base drift.” The Fed has been announcing target ranges for the growth of M1 and other monetary aggregates since 1975. These ranges have been expressed in terms of...