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Factors affecting efforts to limit payments to AIG counterparties
Testimony before the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, U.S. House of Representatives.
Journal Article
The global battle over central bank independence
Journal Article
Independence + accountability: why the Fed is a well-designed central bank
In 1913, Congress purposefully created the Federal Reserve as an independent central bank, which created a fundamental tension: how to ensure the Fed remains accountable to the electorate without losing its independence. Over the years, there have been changes in the Fed?s structure to improve its independence, credibility, accountability, and transparency. These changes have led to a better institutional design that makes U.S. policy credible and based on sound economic reasoning, as opposed to politics. In times of financial and economic crisis, there is an understandable tendency to ...
Journal Article
Fed structure ensures independence, accountability
Journal Article
Central bank independence and economic performance
Journal Article
Two types of paper: the case for Federal Reserve independence
Speech
The outlook for the economy and inflation, and the case for Federal Reserve independence
Presentation to Town Hall Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 23, 2010
Report
Reflections on the financial crisis: where do we go from here?
The past two and a half years have been challenging ones for the Federal Reserve. It is time now to look back--to see what we have learned--and to look forward to reshaping the policy environment, with an eye toward lessening the odds of future financial crises.