Konferenzbeitrag

Financial Stability and the Fed: Evidence from Congressional Hearings

This paper retraces how financial stability considerations interacted with U.S. monetary policy before and during the Great Recession. Using text-mining techniques, we construct indicators for financial stability sentiment expressed during testimonies of four Federal Reserve Chairs at Congressional hearings. Including these text-based measures adds explanatory power to Taylor-rule models. In particular, negative financial stability sentiment coincided with a more accommodative monetary policy stance than implied by standard Taylorrule factors, even in the decades before the Great Recession. These findings are consistent with a preference for monetary policy reacting to financial instability rather than acting pre-emptively to a perceived build-up of risks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2020: Gender Economics

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Thema
monetary policy
financial stability
Taylor rule
text mining

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Wischnewsky, Arina
Jansen, David-Jan
Neuenkirch, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Kiel, Hamburg
(wann)
2020

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Wischnewsky, Arina
  • Jansen, David-Jan
  • Neuenkirch, Matthias
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2020

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