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Conference Paper
The decline of commercial banking: implications for monetary policy
Working Paper
A price target for U.S. monetary policy? Lessons from the experience with money growth targets
The cutting edge of recent efforts to reshape monetary policy in many countries has been to impose a price target on the central bank. This paper examines such a policy in light of the Federal Reserve System's experience with money targeting from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The empirical analysis documents the Federal Reserve's initial use and subsequent disregard of money growth targets, and shows that abandoning these targets was a sensible response to the changing mix of shocks affecting the U.S. economy -- specifically, an increase in the relative volatility of money demand ...
Journal Article
What remains from the Volcker experiment?
Conference Paper
The role of interest rates in Federal Reserve policymaking
Discussion Paper
Credit rationing: a review
Conference Paper
The value of intermediate targets in implementing monetary policy
Working Paper
Money, income, prices and interest rates after the 1980s