Changes in the Risk-Management Environment for Monetary Policy

Jonas Fisher, Francois Gourio and Spencer Krane

Chicago Fed Letter, 2017, No 377

Abstract: In response to the massive challenges presented by the global financial crisis, in late 2007 the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) began a series of large reductions in its traditional policy tool, the overnight interest rate in the federal funds market. By December 2008 the Committee had lowered the target to its effective lower bound (ELB) of 0 to 25 basis points.1 Later, in an attempt to provide additional monetary stimulus, the FOMC implemented nontraditional policy tools, such as large-scale asset purchases and forward guidance about how long the fed funds rate would stay at very low levels.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC); Risk management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/chicag ... /2017/cfl377-pdf.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedhle:00066

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Chicago Fed Letter from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lauren Wiese ().