How the Fed Managed the Treasury Yield Curve in the 1940s

Kenneth Garbade

No 20200406a, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the Federal Reserve to pledge to purchase Treasury securities and agency mortgage-backed securities in the amount needed to support the smooth market functioning and effective transmission of monetary policy to the economy. But some market participants have questioned whether something more might not be required, including possibly some form of direct yield curve control. In the first half of the 1940s the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) sought to manage the level and shape of the Treasury yield curve. In this post, we examine what can be learned from the FOMC’s efforts of seventy-five years ago.

Keywords: Research; Equation; Math; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-04-06
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