This paper was written for the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York City, February 22, 2013. We thank Anil Kashyap for helpful comments. We also thank Matthew Luzzetti, Rumki Majumdar, and John Abraham for their substantive contributions to our analysis and Richard Cunniff for editorial assistance. The views expressed here are ours alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the institutions with which we are affiliated. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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National Bureau of Economic Research: “Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem,” (with Takatoshi Ito) in Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, eds., Monetary Policy Under Very Low Inflation Rates, NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, Vol. 15 (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2006), pp. 131-193.
Sveriges Riksdag (Swedish parliament): An Evaluation of Swedish Monetary Policy Between 1995 and 2005 (with Francesco Giavazzi) (Sveriges Riksdag: Stockholm, Sweden 2006).
Icelandic Chamber of Commerce: with Tryggvi Herbertson, Financial Stability in Iceland (Reyjavik: Icelandic Chamber of Commerce, 2006).
Bank of Korea: “Getting to a Low Inflation Environment,” in Bank of Korea, Monetary Policy in a Low Inflation Environment: The Bank of Korea International Conference 2006 (Bank of Korea: Seoul 2006): 7-24.
Bank of Canada: “The Inflation Targeting Debate,” Bank of Canada, Annual Conference, (Bank of Canada: Ottawa, 2006), pp. 195-220.
Bank of Spain: “Financial Stability and Globalization: Getting It Right,” in Santiago Fernandez de Lis and Fernando Restoy, eds., Central Banks in the 21st Century (Bank of Spain: Madrid, 2006), pp. 215-253.
Central Bank of Chile: ““Does Inflation Targeting Matter?” (with Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel) in Frederic S. Mishkin and Klaus Scmidt-Hebbel, eds., Monetary Policy Under Inflation Targeting (Central Bank of Chile: Santiago 2007), pp. 291-372.
Swiss National Bank: “Inflation Targeting: True Progress or Repackaging of an Old Idea?” in Swiss National Bank, ed., The Swiss National Bank, 1907-2007 (Neue Zurcher Zeitung Publishing: Zurich, 2007), pp. 599-623.
Deutsche Bundesbank: “Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?” in Deutsche Bundesbank, ed., Monetary Policy Over Fifty Years: Experiences and Lessons (Routledge: London 2009), pp. 81-107.
National Bureau of Economic Reserach: “The Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve,” NBER Macro Annual, 2009, pp. 495-508.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: “Commentary on ‘Fire, Flood and Lifeboats: Policy Response in the Global Crisis of 2007-2009,” Reuven Glick and Mark M. Spiegel, eds. Asia and the Global Financial Crisis, Asia Economic Policy Conference (San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2009), pp. 251-257.
U.S. Monetary Policy Forum: “Financial Conditions Indexes: A Fresh Look After the Financial Crisis,” (with Jan Hatzius, Peter Hooper, Frederic Mishkin, Kermit L. Schoenholtz and Mark W. Watson) U.S. Monetary Policy Forum (Chicago: Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets, 2010) pp. 3-59.
Brookings Institution: “Comments on Campbell, Shiller, and Viceira” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (forthcoming).
National Bureau of Economic Research: “Discussion of Takatoshi Ito’s “Great Inflation and Central Bank Independence in Japan,” in Michael Bordo and Athanasios Orphanides, editors, The Great Inflation (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, forthcoming.)
European Central Bank: “Monetary Policy Strategy: Lessons From the Crisis” in Monetary Policy Revisited: Lessons from the Crisis (European Central Bank: Frankfurt, forthcoming.)
Bank of Korea, “Macroprudential Policy in Emerging Market Economies” 2010, and conference version, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Reserve Bank of Australia, “How Should Central Banks Respond to Asset-Price Bubbles? The ‘Lean’ versus ‘Clean’ Debate After the GFC? Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin (June Quarter 2011), pp. 59-69.).
American Enterprise Institute: “The Federal Reserve After the Crisis,” in Vincent Reinhart, editor, No Way Out: Persistent Government Interventions in the Great Contraction (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, forthcoming 2012).
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco: “Macroprudential Policies in Open Emerging Market Economies” (with Joon-Ho Hahm, Hyun Song Shin and Kwanho Shin) in Reuven Glick and Mark M. Spiegel, eds. Asia in the Post-Crisis Economy, 2011 Asia Economic Policy Conference (San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2012) pp. 63-114.
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U.S. Monetary Policy Forum: “Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy,” U.S. Monetary Policy Forum (Chicago: Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets, forthcoming)
