Quantitative Easing: Entrance and Exit Strategies

Alan Blinder

No 1219, Working Papers from Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies.

Abstract: Apparently, it can happen here. On December 16, 2008, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), in an effort to fight what was shaping up to be the worst recession since 1937, reduced the federal funds rate to nearly zero.1 From then on, with all of its conventional ammunition spent, the Federal Reserve was squarely in the brave new world of quantitative easing. Chairman Ben Bernanke tried to call the Fed?s new policies credit easing, probably to differentiate them from what the Bank of Japan had done earlier in the decade, but the label did not stick.

Keywords: Recession; Federal Reserve; open market committee; banking policy; deflation; monetary policy; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 E31 E58 G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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