Even Keel and the Great Inflation
2020; Linguagem: Inglês
10.26509/frbc-wp-202033
ISSN2573-7953
AutoresVictoria Consolvo, Owen F. Humpage, Sanchita Mukherjee,
Tópico(s)Global Financial Crisis and Policies
ResumoDuring the early part of the Great Inflation (1965-1975), the Federal Reserve undertook even-keel operations to assist the US Treasury’s coupon security sales. Accordingly, the central bank delayed any tightening of monetary policy and permanently injected reserves into the banking system. Using real-time Taylor-type and McCallum-like reaction functions, we show that the Fed routinely undertook these operations only when it was otherwise tightening monetary policy. Using a quantity-equation framework, we show that the Federal Reserve’s even-keel actions added approximately one percentage point to the overall 5.1 percent average annual inflation rate over these years.
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