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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Monetary Policy
Impact of the Fed’s Unconventional Monetary Policies
Important evidence on an important topic from my friend Gabe Chodorow-Reich: Unconventional monetary policy affects financial institutions through their expo- sure to real project risk, the value of their legacy assets, their temptation to reach for yield, and their choice … Continue reading
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
From Sam Hanson and Jeremy Stein: Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis-point increase in the 2-year nominal yield on an FOMC announcement day is associated with a 42 … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeremy Stein, Long-Term Real Rates, Monetary Policy, Sam Hanson
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Delong on Why Obama should pick Summers to lead the Fed
From Brad Delong: After eight years as chair of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke is stepping down. Fairly soon, President Barack Obama will need to choose a successor – a decision that will be among the most important that he will ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Christina Romer, Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, larry summers, Laura Tyson, Monetary Policy
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A Century of U.S. Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability
From Ben Bernanke: I’d like to thank the National Bureau of Economic Research for organizing this conference in recognition of the Federal Reserve’s centennial, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to participate. In keeping with the spirit of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Central Banking, Economic History, Monetary Policy, NBER
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Learning from Inflation Experiences
From Ulrike Malmendier and Stefan Nagel: How do individuals form expectations about future inflation? We propose that personal experiences play an important role. Individuals adapt their forecasts to new data but overweight inflation realized during their lifetimes. Young individuals update their expectations … Continue reading
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Tagged inflation, Monetary Policy, Stefan Nagel, Ulrike Malmendier
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Jeremy Stein on Monetary Policy and “Substantial Progress”
From Jeremy Stein: I view Chairman Bernanke’s remarks at his press conference–in which he suggested that if the economy progresses generally as we anticipate then the asset purchase program might be expected to wrap up when unemployment falls to the … Continue reading
On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
From Maury Obstfeld: Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where for many countries bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, government’s capacity to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Europe, Finance, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy, Maury Obstfeld, Monetary Policy, Regulation
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Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates
Here’s a recent paper from David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam on the effects of mortgage market concentration on refinancing effectiveness. Seems like some interesting variation that could be used to trace out the effects of refinancing on consumption in a follow up … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, David Scharfstein, Finance, Housing, Monetary Policy, mortgage market, refinancing
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Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy
A nice chart from a new speech from Jerome Powell. What doesn’t follow is that we need to get the red line up by cutting spending to get the blue line down (based on the logic of Delong Summers and … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Deficits, Fed, Fiscal Policy, Jerome Powell, Monetary Policy
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Historical Hysteresis: Adverse Shocks vs Structural Problems
I started posting last week on the Summers & Blanchard paper, which is on hysteresis and the Unemployment problem in Europe starting in the mid 1970s. Many advocated structural explanations for hysteresis, but Summers & Blanchard looked to the Great Depression period … Continue reading
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