Journal ArticleFEDS Notes · August 2021
<ns3:p>The shortage of women and historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the economics profession has received considerable public attention in the past several years. The American Economic Association (AEA), the professiona ...
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Chapter · May 25, 2018
The Research Handbook on Central Banking's institutional approach is one of the most interdisciplinary efforts to consider its topic, and includes chapters from leading and rising central bankers, economists, lawyers, legal scholars, ... ...
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Journal ArticleFEDS Notes · February 2016
At its December 2015 meeting, the Fed's policymaking committee, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), announced an increase in the target range for the federal funds rate of 25 basis points, the first increase in the policy rate since June 2006 ...
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Journal ArticleFEDS Notes · February 2016
At its December 2015 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)--the Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee--raised its target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, marking the end of an extraordinary seven-year period du ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Perspectives · November 1, 2015
For many years prior to the global financial crisis, the Federal Open Market Committee set a target for the federal funds rate and achieved that target through small purchases and sales of securities in the open market. In the aftermath of the fin ...
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Journal ArticleFEDS Notes · September 2015
The Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC or "Committee") postmeeting statements constitute one of the key vehicles through which the Committee communicates its assessment of the economy, its policy actions, and its thinking about future policy.
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Journal ArticleFEDS Notes · May 2015
The Federal Reserve&amp;amp;#x27;s communications with the public have evolved substantially since the early 1990s and today include: policy statements released shortly after the conclusion of monetary policy meetings; minutes of those meet ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Finance · December 2014
AbstractIn the aftermath of the financial crisis that rocked Southeast Asia in 1997–98, prominent scholars argued that the advice dispensed by the International Monetary Fund and supported by the poli ...
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Chapter · March 29, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary Economic Policy · April 2010
This article looks at disagreement within the Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee, the Federal Open Market Committee or FOMC, following a change in transparency practices taken in 1993 to publish verbatim transcripts of FOMC ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Perspectives · November 1, 2007
The past two decades have seen enormous changes in central banks and their practices. In some countries, older institutions have been fundamentally restructured. In other, such as the countries of the former Soviet Union, entirely new central bank ...
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