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Speech
Fixing wholesale funding to build a more stable financial system
Remarks at the New York Bankers Association's 2013 Annual Meeting & Economic Forum, The Waldorf Astoria, New York City.
Working Paper
The promise and performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort 1914-1933
This paper examines the origins and early performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort. The Fed was established to overcome the problems of the National Banking era, in particular an ?inelastic? currency and the absence of an effective lender of last resort. As conceived by Paul Warburg and Nelson Aldrich at Jekyll Island in 1910, the Fed?s discount window and bankers acceptance-purchase facilities were expected to solve the problems that had caused banking panics in the National Banking era. Banking panics returned with a vengeance in the 1930s, however, and we examine why the ...
Journal Article
Locating Federal Reserve districts and headquarters cities
Journal Article
Final rule amending the rules regarding delegation of authority
Journal Article
The Aldrich plan
Journal Article
Beginnings
Journal Article
The formative years
Journal Article
New Federal Reserve legislation and current credit situation
Journal Article
About Robert Latham Owen