In Memoriam: Keith M. Carlson
For several decades, the St. Louis Fed was known as the “Monetarist Fed.” Several St. Louis Fed economists—and a few Bank presidents—were instrumental in developing and burnishing this reputation.
For several decades, the St. Louis Fed was known as the “Monetarist Fed.” Several St. Louis Fed economists—and a few Bank presidents—were instrumental in developing and burnishing this reputation.
The modern model of central bank communication suggests that central bankers prefer to err on the side of saying too much rather than too little. The reason is that most central bankers believe that clear and concise communication of monetary policy helps achieve their goals.
This article studies the extent to which open economies conduct monetary policy differently from economies that are relatively closed to international trade.
This article proposes a general equilibrium model to explain the positive and sizable term premia implied by the data. The authors introduce a slow mean-reverting process of consumption growth and a segmented asset-market mechanism with heterogeneous trading technologies into an otherwise standard heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model.
White workers in the United States earn almost 30 percent more per hour on average than Black workers, and this wage gap is associated with large racial differences in occupational assignments. In this article, we theoretically and empirically examine the Black-White disparity in occupations.
