Monetary Policy

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Monetary Policy

How do we police currency wars and manipulation?

David Dollar and Mark Sobel

Monday, November 11, 2019

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Up Front

A risky mix: Looser financial regulations when monetary policy is easing

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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Global Economy

October 2019 update to TIGER: Sliding into synchronized stagnation

Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu

Sunday, October 13, 2019

U.S. capitol building at night

Report

Revisiting the budget outlook: An update after the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019

Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Reports

Ben Bernanke & Janet Yellen

Report

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen on why the answer to the inflation puzzle matters

Janet L. Yellen

Thursday, October 3, 2019

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Report

Has the dollar lost ground as the dominant international currency?

Friday, September 20, 2019

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Report

Stress tests and the countercyclical capital buffer: the UK experience

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

U.S. Capitol Building

Report

Fiscal policy with high debt and low interest rates

William G. Gale

Thursday, August 15, 2019

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Report

Emerging market capital flows and US monetary policy

John Clark, Nathan Converse, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Steven Kamin

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Blog Posts

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Africa in focus

An evaluation of the single currency agenda in the ECOWAS region

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Up Front

What happens if Trump tries to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell?

Peter Conti-Brown

Monday, September 9, 2019

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Up Front

Lessons learned from the Argentine economy under Macri

Manuel Alcalá Kovalski

Thursday, September 5, 2019

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Events

Taming Japan’s deflation

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

The future of financial regulation

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Unconventional monetary policy: How well did it work?

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Related Books

The $13 Trillion Question

Edited by David Wessel

2015

ECB Banking Supervision and Beyond

By Karel Lannoo

2015

To the Edge

By Philip A. Wallach

2015

Experts

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Up Front

Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation

William G. Gale

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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Up Front

College sports joins the marketplace, with limits

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

David Wessel

Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Multimedia

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Podcast Episode

Janet Yellen on monetary policy, currencies, and manipulation

David Dollar and Janet L. Yellen

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

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Brookings Now

Bernanke on the causes of the financial crisis, questioning how we measure potential economic output, and more new research in economics

Thursday, September 13, 2018

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Ben Bernanke

Financial panic and credit disruptions in the 2007-09 crisis

Ben S. Bernanke

Thursday, September 13, 2018

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