The global recession of 2008-09 led to monetary and fiscal policy responses by central banks and government authorities that were often unconventional in size and scope. A study of expansionary measures employed during the recession suggests that overall, the policies were likely effective in...

This article uses principal component methods to assess the importance of changes in the federal funds rate in driving interest rate changes across a broad array of credit markets. We find that most of the variability in interest rate changes across these markets is explained by a small number...

Recent research has emphasized that the Federal Reserve under Chairman Alan Greenspan was forward looking, smoothed interest rates, and focused on core inflation. The semiannual monetary policy reports to U.S. Congress indicate that the measure of inflation used in monetary policy deliberations...

Since the fall of 2008, the amount of outstanding reserves on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has increased from about 100 billion dollars to more than 1 trillion dollars. There is some concern that the magnitude of outstanding reserves might affect the ability of the Federal Reserve to...

Presentation to the Bank of Japan’s 12th International Conference of the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies (Tokyo, Japan) May 31, 2005

Presentation to Town Hall Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 2011

Panel discussion for the Federal Reserve Board/Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (JMCB) conference on "Financial Markets and Monetary Policy", Washington D.C. , June 5, 2009

Presentation to the Western Economic Association International, San Francisco, CA, July 2, 2012

Presentation to the Bank of Korea’s International Conference 2005 on The Effectiveness of Stabilization Policies, Seoul, Korea, May 27, 2005