The Federal Reserve (Fed) is tasked with maintaining price stability and achieving maximum employment. In practice, over the last decades the Fed has sought to achieve its objectives primarily through the manipulation of a short-term inter-bank interest rate, the federal funds rate (FFR).At the...

Yes! We study the substitutability between conventional monetary policy based on the adjustment of a short term policy interest rate with quantitative easing (QE). We do so in a four equation New Keynesian model featuring financial frictions that allows QE to be economically relevant. We...

This paper studies the implications of household heterogeneity for the effectiveness of quantitative easing (QE). We consider a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with uninsurable household income risk. Financial intermediaries are subject to an endogenous leverage constraint that...

This paper documents large differences across vintages in the properties of the widely-used quarterly utilization-adjusted TFP series produced by Fernald (2014), who provides updated data each quarter on his website. The most recent vintage of the adjusted TFP series has correlations with...

There has been recent interest in the implications of expectations about changesin future fundamentals for the business cycle. This dissertation is broadly concernedwith the identifcation and study of so-called "news shocks" about future productivity.The effects of news shocks shed light on...