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President's Message: What's It Like on the FOMC?
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Presidnent's Message: Rethinking the ‘Lender of Last Resort’
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President's message: Banking on credibility
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Noteworthy : Encouraging homeownership - at what cost?
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President's message : Don't I buy food or gasoline?
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Should the Fed Have a Financial Stability Mandate? Lessons from the Fed's First 100 Years
President Jeffrey Lacker and Research Publications Content Manager Renee Haltom explore the Fed's role in financial stability. Following the global financial crisis of 2007--08, the Fed has been given enhanced regulatory responsibilities to prevent future crises. However, most of the Fed's actions in pursuit of financial stability have historically come through emergency lending once crises are underway. The authors conclude that arguments in favor of emergency lending are based on erroneous readings of history. Instead, emergency lending may undermine financial stability, as well as the ...
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Money, trade credit and asset prices
We describe a stochastic economic environment in which the mix of money and trade credit used as means of payment is endogenous. The economy has an infinite horizon, spatial separation and a credit-related transaction cost, but no capital. We find that the equilibrium prices of arbitrary contingent claims to future currency differ from those from one-good cash-in-advance models. This anomaly is directly related to the endogeneity of the mix of media of exchange used. In particular, nominal interest rates affect the risk-free real rate of return. The model also has implications for some ...
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President's message: Policy trumps luck