2004
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4266(02)00409-0
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The Fed and short-term rates: Is it open market operations, open mouth operations or interest rate smoothing?

Abstract: It is widely believed that the Fed controls the federal funds rate by altering the degree of pressure in the reserve market through open market operations when it changes its target

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“…This is disconcerting because the effect of open market operations should be reflected initially in the federal funds market. Nevertheless, this result is consistent with other attempts at identifying monetary policy shocks using daily data (e.g., Thornton, 2001Thornton, , 2003.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
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“…This is disconcerting because the effect of open market operations should be reflected initially in the federal funds market. Nevertheless, this result is consistent with other attempts at identifying monetary policy shocks using daily data (e.g., Thornton, 2001Thornton, , 2003.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…As with SVAR's, identification in DFM requires identifying restrictions. Like Hamilton (1997) and Thornton (2001) we use daily data and rely on aspects of the Fed's operation procedure to identify monetary policy. The approach is novel in that it relies on the fact that monetary policy actions that are unknown to the public should initially affect only the federal funds rate.…”
Section: Does One Of the Factors Represent A Monetary Policy Shock?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3 See, for example, Guthrie and Wright (2000), Taylor (2001), Demiralp and Jordà (2002), Thornton (2004b) and Nautz and Schmidt (2009 Fact 3. During the pre-94 period, the average size of absolute changes in the prime rate was much larger than that of the funds rate target.…”
Section: The Degree Of Pass-throughmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first are estimates obtained only using settlement Wednesdays (SW) and the second are the estimates using all days other than settlement Wednesdays (NSW). The first is the period of explicit funds rate targeting, September 23, 1974-December 31, 1979(e.g., see Cook and Hahn, 1989Thornton, 2004a). The second is the period of monetary aggregate targeting using the nonborrowed reserves operating procedure, October 9, 1979-October 6, 1982.…”
Section: Testing the Expectations Hypothesismentioning
confidence: 99%