IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/jhisae/0114.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Insights from the Federal Reserve's Weekly Balance Sheet, 1976-2017

Author

Listed:
  • Fries, Nicholas

    (The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise)

Abstract

I make available full digitized data of the Federal Reserve’s weekly balance sheet from 1976-2017 for the first time. After a short overview of the central bank during the period, I analyze the trends of the Federal Reserve’s assets and liabilities, as a result of its monetary policy decisions. I focus on the effects of significant events, such as the Great Inflation, the Great Moderation, and the Great Recession, on the Fed’s balance sheet.

Suggested Citation

  • Fries, Nicholas, 2018. "Insights from the Federal Reserve's Weekly Balance Sheet, 1976-2017," Studies in Applied Economics 114, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:jhisae:0114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2018/08/Insights-from-the-Federal-Reserves-Weekly-Balance-Sheet-1976-2017-.pdf
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Hetzel,Robert L., 2014. "The Great Recession," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107459601.
    2. Bao, Cecilia & Paine, Emma, 2018. "Insights from the Federal Reserve’s Weekly Balance Sheet, 1942-1975," Studies in Applied Economics 104, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    3. Chen, Justin & Gibson, Andrew, 2017. "Insights from the Federal Reserve’s Weekly Balance Sheet, 1914-1941," Studies in Applied Economics 73, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Michael D. Bordo & Joseph G. Haubrich, 2017. "Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, And Financial Crises: Evidence From The American Record," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 55(1), pages 527-541, January.
    2. Kang Dae Woong & Nick Ligthart & Ashoka Mody, 2015. "The European Central Bank: Building a Shelter in a Storm," Working Papers 248, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies..
    3. Bao, Cecilia & Paine, Emma, 2018. "Insights from the Federal Reserve’s Weekly Balance Sheet, 1942-1975," Studies in Applied Economics 104, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise.
    4. Kang, Dae Woong & Ligthart, Nick & Mody, Ashoka, 2015. "The European Central Bank: Building a shelter in a storm," CFS Working Paper Series 527, Center for Financial Studies (CFS).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Federal Reserve; balance sheet; assets; liabilities; gold; inflation; Great Recession;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:jhisae:0114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Steve H. Hanke (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iaejhus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.