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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US)
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
Gauging the Ability of the FOMC to Respond to Future Recessions
AbstractCurrent forecasts suggest that the federal funds rate in the future is likely to level out at a rather low level by historical standards. If so, then the FOMC will have less ability than in the past to cut short-term interest rates in response to a future recession, suggesting a risk that economic downturns could turn out to be more severe as a result. However, simulations of the FRB/US model of a severe recession suggest that large-scale asset purchases and forward guidance about the future path of the federal funds rate should be able to provide enough additional accommodation to fully compensate for a more limited to cut short-term interest rates in most, but probably not all, circumstances.
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David L. Reifschneider, Gauging the Ability of the FOMC to Respond to Future Recessions, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2016-068, 2016.
JEL Classification:
- E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
Keywords: Monetary policy ; Asset purchases ; Forward guidance ; Zero lower bound
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