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When Tight Is Too Tight: The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Post-World War II Spike in Inflation

With the end of World War II, the massive expansion of defense spending came to a halt, and the money supply financing it quickly stabilized. However, the real money supply declined further with the transitory inflationary upswing of 1946–47, which fueled deflationary expectations, passively pushing up real interest rates and triggering the 1949 recession. We compare the Fed’s current stance to this historical episode, concluding that the ongoing tightening is already sufficient to normalize monetary conditions to prepandemic trends. This article also discusses how fiscal policy might ...
Policy Hub , Volume 2023 , Issue 8 , Pages 9

Speech
A New Chapter for the FOMC Monetary Policy Framework

Remarks at "In Conversation: New York Fed Presidents on COVID-19" (Bretton Woods Committee Webinar).
Speech

Working Paper
Supply of Sovereign Safe Assets and Global Interest Rates

We estimate that the supply of sovereign safe assets is a major driver of neutral interest rates--real rates consistent with both economic activity and inflation at their trends. We find this result using an empirical cross-country model with many economic drivers for the neutral rates of 11 advanced economies during the 1960-2019 period. The increasing availability of safe assets after 2008 has pushed up neutral rates, preventing them from continuing their previous decline because of other drivers. We also evaluate the "global savings glut" hypothesis. We estimate that since 1994 the global ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 1315

Working Paper
Scarcity of Safe Assets and Global Neutral Interest Rates

We quantitatively evaluate the role of supply and demand of safe assets in determining neutral interest rates. Using an empirical cross-country state-space model, we find that the net supply of sovereign safe assets available to the private sector in secondary markets is an important driver of neutral rates for 11 advanced economies in the period 1970–2018. We also find that the global accumulation of international reserves in sovereign safe assets since the 1990s (the global savings glut) lowered the net supply of these assets and, thus reduced neutral rates by up to 50 basis points in our ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 1293

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