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Europe on a Slippery Slope

April 17, 2013, Thomas Wright

April 2013 Update to TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery

April 2013, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Currency Wars: This Time, Is It for Real?

April 10, 2013, Jacques Mistral

The Fed's Trying To Get the Party Started, So Why All the Criticism?

March 18, 2013, George L. Perry

Italy’s Post-Election Chaos Isn’t What You Think

March 1, 2013, Carlo Bastasin

Time to Call a Truce in the Currency Wars

March 1, 2013, Michael W. Klein

Would Congress Care if the Federal Reserve Lost Money? A Lesson from History

February 26, 2013, Sarah A. Binder

Certainly there is going to be a lot of talk about currency valuation, and maybe some reference in the [G20] communique [in Moscow], although most of it will be below the surface.

February 11, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Financial Times

With the rating agencies discredited and markets vulnerable to adverse news on the economy, the period of unusual uncertainty could be prolonged.

February 5, 2013, Donald Kohn, Bloomberg

[While quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan] may have an effect on the exchange rate, it is not the same as outright currency intervention. Moreover, the U.S. would be hard pressed to criticize Japan as the [Federal Reserve] has also resorted to quantitative easing to avoid deflationary pressures.

January 17, 2013, Mireya Solís, Reuters

A Trillion Dollar Coin Would Compromise the Federal Reserve

January 14, 2013, Ted Gayer

The largest sources of uncertainty for the U.S. are internal, and foreign leaders may want to understand that.

January 11, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

Comments on “The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn’t Matter”

January 5, 2013, Donald Kohn

Federal Reserve Independence in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Should We Be Worried?

January 4, 2013, Donald Kohn

Monetary Policy in 2012: Further Disappointments in Growth; Further Innovations in Monetary Policy

December 20, 2012, Donald Kohn

The Future of the CEMAC CFA Franc

December 2012, Julius Agbor

The Upside of the Euro Crisis

November 28, 2012, Justin Vaïsse

History will have judged Ben Bernanke to have been an outstanding chairman who did what he had to do under extremely difficult circumstances.

October 31, 2012, Donald Kohn, Bloomberg

October 2012 Update for TIGER: Tracking Indexes for Global Economic Recovery

October 2012, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Global Economic Recovery Hits the Ropes

October 7, 2012, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda

Banks and Cross-Border Capital Flows: Policy Challenges and Regulatory Responses

September 2012

Consensus on Monetary Policy at the Federal Reserve

September 13, 2012, Sarah A. Binder

Credible Commitments and the Federal Reserve

September 4, 2012, Sarah A. Binder

Central banks are under a lot of scrutiny right now. It's partly because they are using these unconventional measures that people don't really understand and don't really trust.

September 2, 2012, Karen Dynan, Reuters

Why is it that we've had such incredibly accommodative monetary policy for so long and we've had so little growth?

September 2, 2012, Donald Kohn, Wall Street Journal