How Central Should the Central Bank Be?

Alan Blinder

No 1202, Working Papers from Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies.

Abstract: About six years ago, I published a small book entitled The Quiet Revolution (Blinder 2004). Though its subtitle was Central Banking Goes Modern, I never imagined the half of it. Since March 2008, the Federal Reserve has gone post-modern with a bewildering variety of unprecedented actions that have either changed the nature and scope of the central bank?s role or stretched it beyond the breaking point, depending on your point of view. And that leads straight to the central question of this essay: What should--and shouldn?t--the Federal Reserve do?

Keywords: Federal reserve bank; monetary policy; central bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E42 E50 E60 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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