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I strongly believe that the recent financial crisis, ensuing recession, and slow recovery were primarily caused by government policy. The Federal Reserve made some very bad monetary decisions that created a bubble, i.e., a massive malinvestment. The bubble ended up being focused in the housing...
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, minority voting supporting a higher Bank Rate decreases the likelihood of further asset purchases …
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As the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act approaches, we assess whether the nation‘s experiment with the Federal Reserve has been a success or a failure. Drawing on a wide range of recent empirical research, we find the following: (1) The Fed‘s full history (1914 to...
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Central bank transparency has received great deal of attention in recent years. However, the theoretical literature has … one aspect of transparency, the transparency of ‘knowledge' which refers to the disclosure of central bank forecasts about …
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While there is ample evidence how central bank communication and interest rate decisions are perceived by financial … policy presented in the media are affected by central bank communication and interest rate decisions …
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In response to the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have adopted unconventional … bound. To do so we add a stylised financial sector and central bank asset purchases to an otherwise standard New Keynesian … unconventional monetary policy instruments are coordinated appropriately then the central bank is better able to stabilise both …
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affects the profit-loss of the central bank. On the other hand, the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves may affect the … account within the decision-making process for foreign currency debt issuance. In addition, we argue that, if the central bank … bank such as the MNB to rapidly obtain an ample amount of foreign exchange reserves is a foreign exchange swap line …
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Central bank communication is becoming a key aspect of monetary policy as a consequence of financial liberalization and … the People's Bank of China (PBoC) should be a key question for the central bank in modernising its monetary policy toolkit …
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In this paper, we explore the interest rate setting behavior of newly appointed central bank governors. We use the … partly independent central bank and an explicit nominal anchor …
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In this paper we suggest a simple empirical and model-independent measure of Central Banks' Conservatism, based on the Taylor curve. This new indicator can easily be extended in time and space, whatever the underlying monetary regime of the considered countries. We demonstrate that it evolves in...
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