
Frederic Mishkin
· Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial InstitutionsColumbia University · Italian
Active 1976–2024
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Research topics
- Financial system
- Business
- Finance
- Economics
- Monetary economics
Selected publications
Research in Economics · 2019-11-27 · 123 citations
articleOpen accessCorrespondingRethinking monetary policy after the crisis
Journal of International Money and Finance · 2017-02-21 · 49 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingPrinceton University Press eBooks · 2018-06-05 · 46 citations
bookOpen accessLanguage after liftoff: Fed communication away from the zero lower bound
Research in Economics · 2017-04-21 · 38 citations
articleCorrespondingImproving the use of discretion in monetary policy
International Finance · 2018-12-01 · 17 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This paper argues that the rules versus discretion debate has been miscast because a central bank does not have to choose only between adopting a policy rule versus pure discretion, both of which have serious shortcomings. Rather, it can choose a constrained discretionary regime that has rule‐like attributes. To make monetary policy discretion more rule‐like, it can be improved by (1) adopting a nominal anchor such as an inflation target, a monetary‐policy strategy that has proved to be…
Frequent coauthors
- 102 shared
John Huizinga
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
- 43 shared
Ben Bernanke
- 27 shared
Adam S. Posen
Capital University
- 20 shared
Eugene N. White
- 17 shared
Arturo Estrella
Central University of Ecuador
- 16 shared
Anil Kashyap
Centre for Economic Policy Research
- 14 shared
Miguel Savastano
- 12 shared
Michael T. Kiley
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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