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A framework for the analysis of moderate inflations
Optimal monetary policy is studied in a model with no contractual restrictions or physical costs of changing prices. Nevertheless, the price level is sticky in a range of markup indeterminacy, and inflation occurs only when employment presses against capacity. Under full information, the monetary authority can exploit price level stickiness to minimize the markup and keep employment at a constrained optimum without inflation. Under uncertainty, negative aggregate demand shocks produce real contractions and positive shocks raise the price level. The monetary authority can raise the likelihood ...
Journal Article
Monetary policy comes of age: a 20th century odyssey
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A note on the neutrality of temporary monetary disturbances
In the classical macroeconomic models constructed by Lucas (1972, 1975) and Barro (1976), monetary aggregates are assumed to be generated by a logarithmic random walk. This specification implies that all monetary growth is (a) unanticipated and (b) permanent.
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Discount window borrowing, monetary policy, and the post-October 6, 1979 Federal Reserve operating procedure
This paper is intended to be an analysis of discount window borrowing as it relates to more general issues of monetary control. The topic deserves a new look because of the central role of discount window borrowing under the post-October 6, 1979 "reserve targeting" operating strategy.
Conference Paper
Federal Reserve asset acquisition: a proposal, panel discussion
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A historical assessment of the rationales and functions of reserve requirements
Laws requiring banks to hold a volume of reserves equal to a prescribed fraction of their deposits originated in this country more than a century ago. Since then both the financial system and the rationales supporting reserve requirements have changed considerably. Nevertheless, the practice of requiring reserves has continued without interruption. This article examines the history and function of reserve requirements at the national level and assesses the validity of various prominent reserve requirement rationales.
Monograph
Eurodollars
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Measurement error and a reinterpretation of the conventional money demand regression
It has been sixteen years since a partial adjustment model was first applied in empirical money demand studies by Chow [1996]. Since then the partial adjustment specification has become widely used, particularly in quarterly money demand studies. However, in spite of its widespread use, the theoretical rationalization for the partial adjustment specification has never been entirely satisfactory.