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Risk management in monetary policymaking: remarks to the National Association of Corporate Directors, New England Chapter, Boston, Massachusetts, March 5, 2019
Eric Rosengren, the Boston Fed president, offered up a ?relatively strong forecast? for the economy in 2019: growth somewhat above 2 percent, inflation close to the Fed?s 2 percent target, and a labor market that continues to tighten. However, ?risks to that outlook have increased recently,? he said, in a talk focused on assessing and managing those risks.
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The Federal Reserve’s Market Functioning Purchases: From Supporting to Sustaining
Remarks at SIFMA Webinar.
Journal Article
Closing Small and "Sufficiently" Large Open Economies with Different Asset Structures
There are two important dimensions that matter when we write down a model economy of a country that is open to international financial markets. The first one is its size, and the second one is its asset market structure. Small open economies are price takers so the analysis happens in partial equilibrium, while countries that are “sufficiently" large can affect international prices and the analysis happens in general equilibrium. The second important dimension is the asset market structure. If markets are complete there is full risk sharing, while if markets are incomplete there is not. In ...
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Opening remarks at panel on Market Monitoring and the Implementation of Monetary Policy
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan delivered these remarks at the annual meetings of the International Banking, Economics and Finance Association and the American Economic Association.
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Recent Global Developments and Central Bank Responsibilities in a Changing Risk Landscape
Remarks at the Official Sector Service Providers (OSSP)-Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)-South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre Forum on Central Bank Foreign Currency Operations.
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Rising to the Challenge: Central Banking, Financial Markets, and the Pandemic
Remarks at the 16th Meeting of the Financial Research Advisory Committee for the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (delivered via videoconference).
Journal Article
Leveraging New Resources by Acknowledging Market Failures While Exploring Market Opportunities
At Enterprise Community Partners, our mission is to create opportunity for low- and moderate-income people through the creation and preservation of affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. We?ve done this work for more than 35 years, bringing together national know-how, partners, policy leadership, and investment to multiply the impact of local affordable housing development. Over that time, we have invested more than $36 billion through public-private partnerships, resulting in more than half a million healthy, well-designed affordable homes, critical community assets like ...
Working Paper
Foreign Reserve Management and U.S. Money Market Liquidity: A Cost of Exorbitant Privilege
We show theoretically and empirically that the dollar’s status as the global reserve currencycan lead to economically significant changes in U.S. money market liquidity. We develop amodel in which U.S. money market spreads respond to foreign central banks’ exchange-ratemanagement decisions. Foreign central banks remove liquidity from U.S. money markets andcause spreads to widen by selling Treasuries to supply liquidity to their financial systems.Our analysis focuses on the major oil exporting countries with fixed exchange rates becausetheir foreign-exchange market interventions are ...
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Monetary policymaking in today’s environment: finding “policy space” in a low-rate world: remarks at the 33rd Annual Cornelson Distinguished Lecture at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, April 15, 2019
Now is a good time to reflect on the Federal Reserve?s monetary policy framework. The U.S. and many developed economies are likely to be challenged by the implications of a low interest rate environment for their ability to offset recessions. The reality of limited monetary policy space provides important context for why the Federal Reserve should broadly consider its current policies and their likely outcomes. While I would currently prefer moving to an inflation range, I look forward to future discussions. A key matter for me will be considering whether the possible changes to the Fed?s ...
Briefing
Are Markets Becoming Less Competitive?
National markets in many U.S. industries seem to be increasingly dominated by large companies. Some policymakers have argued that this growing market concentration is a sign of weakening competition, but concentration by itself does not necessarily translate into market power. It may be too soon to reach a decisive conclusion about whether market power, not simply market concentration, is on the rise.