The Federal Reserve System and World War I: Designing Policies without Precedent
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Keywords
Crisis prevention; liquidity provision; Federal Reserve Act;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
- E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
- N22 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2015-07-18 (Central Banking)
- NEP-HIS-2015-07-18 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2015-07-18 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2015-07-18 (Monetary Economics)
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