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Federal Reserve behavior during the Great Depression
This thesis will examine possible determinants of Federal Reserve behavior during the Great Depression. It starts with the assumption that economic variables alone are unsatisfactory in determining Federal Reserve policy choices. Various explanations are then offered and examined. The role of …
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Monetarism, Federal Reserve Policy and the Monetarist Experiment
… the third quarter of 1982 with respect to Federal Reserve policy. This period is known as the "Monetarist Experiment" because the Federal Reserve announced that it would be adopting monetarist principles in the implementation of its policy. Supporters of monetarism claim that this was not a …
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The discount policy of the Federal Reserve Board
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The independent status of the Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is a complex central bank system which determines the money supply and the level of interest rates. The System was established in 1913 as a monetary authority primarily concerned with maintaining an elastic reserve system which would act as a check on bank runs and money …
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Election cycles in Federal Reserve policy instruments and indicators
… evidence of a political monetary cycle in Federal Reserve policy instruments and indicators, such as the discount rate and the monetary base. The theoretical predictions of a four year presidential election cycle are tested with seasonal adjustment indices, which provide a measure of the …
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The Central Bankers: Administrative Legitimacy and the Federal Reserve System
… this dissertation, I study the legitimacy of the Federal Reserve System. Administrative legitimacy, I argue, is an evaluative (or subjective) concept consisting of two beliefs: first, administrative institutions have a right to govern; second, they are an appropriate way to handle public tasks. …
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The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1919-1933
… examines the strategy and consistency of Federal Reserve monetary policy from 1919-1933. The controversy concerning the Fed's failure to undertake expansionary policies during the Great Depression makes policy consistency an important question to address. Were the Fed's failures due to …
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The Monetary Theory and Practice of the Federal Reserve, 1914–35
Since its inception in 1913, the US Federal Reserve System (Fed; System) has been home to some of the world’s best minds in law, statistics, economics, and public policy. The collective impact of these individuals has not only influenced the lives of millions in the US, but of billions around the …
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Public prices - private costs : the Federal Reserve Bank competes with itself
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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An analysis of the legislative debate on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
… the argumentation employed in the debate on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The focus of the research was upon isolating, describing, and analyzing the arguments and evidence advanced by the advocates of both the Owen Amendments and the Hitchcock Report debated in the United States Senate. A …
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The Credit Availability Doctrine--Its Theoretical and Practical Role in Federal Reserve Policy
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The Modern U.S. Federal Reserve: To What Extent is Transparency Counterproductive and Politicizing?
… and potentially politicizing within the U.S. Federal Reserve system. It exemplifies a Venn diagram intersection of political and economic theory – and given the meaningful change in behavior at the Fed – to some extent organizational theory as well. This political economy orientation may be …
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A study of Federal Reserve System monetary and credit policy actions from 1950 to 1957
no abstract provided by author
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Centralization or decentralization? A study of the data processing requirements of the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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The impact of Federal Reserve’s policies on the residential mortgage markets
Post Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the Federal Reserve adopted a new tool for temporary quantitative easing (QE) by purchasing agency mortgage-backed securities and Treasury securities from the market in an attempt to resurrect the economy. This unconventional method of restoring the capital …
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Measuring Central Bank Credibility From the Effect of Inflation Shocks on Asset Prices
… framework for monetary policy, while the Federal Reserve did not; instead, the Fed settled on an implicit inflation-targeting framework. In this study, I test whether the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve earned credibility for their respective commitments— explicit or otherwise—to …
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Essays in Country Banking: Case Studies of the First National Bank of Bloomington (Illinois)
… I examine the decision to select locations for Federal Reserve Banks by the Reserve Board Organization Committee in April 1914. I estimate probability choice models for the 37 cities that requested consideration by the committee by relying upon statements of involved persons as proxies. The …
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