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Monetary Policy on the 75th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve System

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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  1. Michael T. Belongia

    1. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  3. Session II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Why Does the Fed Smooth Interest Rates?

      • Alex Cukierman
      Pages 111-147

    3. Commentary

      • Michelle R. Garfinkel
      Pages 148-157

    4. Precommitment to Rules in Monetary Policy

      • S. Edmund Phelps
      Pages 159-178

    5. Commentary

      • Manfred J. M. Neumann
      Pages 179-185

  4. Session III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Monitoring Monetary Aggregates Under Risk Aversion

      • William A. Barnett, Melvin Hinich, Piyu Yue
      Pages 189-222

    3. Commentary: Monetary Aggregates and their Uses

      • Julio J. Rotemberg
      Pages 223-231

    4. A Reply to Julio J. Rotemberg

      • William A. Barnett
      Pages 232-243

    5. Money and Business Cycles: A Real Business Cycle Interpretation

      • Charles I. Plosser
      Pages 245-274

    6. Commentary

      • N. Gregory Mankiw
      Pages 275-278
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When the 12 District Banks of the Federal Reserve System opened their doors for business on November 16, 1914, few observers could have foreseen the Fed's present role as a major, if not dominant, player in U. S. and world economic policymaking. After all, two previous attempts to create a central bank in this country had ended in failure. Moreover, much of the economic theory and institutional structure that have given rise to monetary policy's influence in recent years were not yet in place. Indeed, it would take the Fed more than 20 years to learn (by accident!) the power of open market operations. Clearly, the modern Federal Reserve System has found itself with powers and responsibilities that were not envisioned by its founders. These proceedings from a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on October 19-20, 1989, examine U. S. monetary policy from a variety of perspectives: a historical review of how it has affected aggregate economic performance; a positive analysis of why the Federal Reserve has chosen particular policy strategies; a review of normative arguments about what the Fed should pursue as its policy objective; a critique of how the Fed's "output"-the flow of monetary services in the U. S. economy-is measured; and, finally, a debate over the Fed's ability to influence real economic activity by changing the nominal quantity of money in circulation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA

    Michael T. Belongia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Monetary Policy on the 75th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve System

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  • Editors: Michael T. Belongia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3888-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9124-1Published: 31 December 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5731-8Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3888-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 278

  • Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Finance, general, History of Economic Thought/Methodology

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