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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"The Federal Reserve"”.
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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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The Central Bankers: Administrative Legitimacy and the Federal Reserve System
In 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 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.
This study was designed to investigate 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 …
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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.
… Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Measuring Central Bank Credibility From the Effect of Inflation Shocks on Asset Prices
<p>In the early 1990s, the Bank of Canada explicitly adopted the inflation-targeting 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 …
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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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The Evolution of the Federal Reserve's Mandate in Response to the Global Financial Crisis: The Case for Financial Stability
<p>This thesis looks at the evolution of the Federal Reserve’s mandate and regulatory responsibilities as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. The onset of the crisis exposed the financial system to risks that had yet to be identified by the traditional microprudential regulatory framework, …
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Monetarism, Federal Reserve Policy and the Monetarist Experiment
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the period between the fourth quarter of 1979 through 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 …
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A.P. Giannini, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, and the Changing Landscape of American Banking
The Great Depression elucidated the shortcomings of the banking system and its control by Wall Street. The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 was insufficient to correct flaws in the banking system until the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935. A.P. Giannini, the American-Italian founder of …
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Ability of Agricultural Bankers to Forecast Farm Income and Expenditures
<p>The Federal Reserve System conducts a quarterly survey of agricultural banks. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the ability of bankers to accurately forecast farm income and expenditures of farmers in the Ninth Federal Reserve District. There have been studies to assess the accuracy of …
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Empirical and Theoretical Evidence for the Strategic Use of Debt Management as an Active Policy Instrument
This dissertation provides theoretical and empirical motivation for the strategic use of federal debt management as an instrument of fiscal and monetary policy. It advances the sparse theoretical literature in this area on at least two fronts. First, the source of conflict between existing …
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Central bank credibility, endogenous beliefs and short-run Phillips curves
The effects of monetary policy on real economic variables have been debated for some time. This debate became more intense after the discovery of the Phillips curve which appeared to show a stable trade-off between inflation and unemployment. This curve in its original form has now been abandoned …
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Rational expectations, money announcements, and the bond market
Sargent and Wallace have argued that the natural rate hypothesis combined with rational expectations eradicates the standard effects of monetary policy, unless the central monetary authority holds an information advantage over the general public. In defining rational expectations, John Muth wrote …
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Not So Great Expectations: An Analysis of Expectation Determinants and the Predictability of Expectation Errors
In this paper, I use novel survey data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) to analyze expectations of national inflation, national stock market returns, personal credit access, and personal financial wellbeing to test the rational expectations …
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Essays On The Impacts Of Quantitative Easing On Financial Markets
<p>Due to the severity of the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve had attempted a variety of unconventional monetary policy to support the U.S. financial markets at the verge of collapse. The most well-known of the Fed's unconventional monetary policy is quantitative easing, in which it …
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Monetary Policy Spillovers – The Impact of Advanced Central Banks’ Decisions on Emerging Financial Markets
The thesis delves into the impact of advanced central banks' monetary policies on emerging government bond markets, the so-called 'monetary policy spillovers.' Over the past decade, there has been a reported correlation between interest rates on advanced and emerging financial markets. Following …
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