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The FED’s Strategy on a Targets-based Monetary Policy Framework

by Florian Gerth a,* orcid  and  Yiyang Bian b
a
Asian Institute of Management, Makati, Manila, Philippines
b
Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, UAE
*
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FEL  2023 2(1):8; https://doi.org/10.58567/fel02010003
Received: 1 April 2023 / Accepted: 18 May 2023 / Published Online: 21 June 2023
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Abstract

Major economic and financial contractions usually go hand-in-hand with muted inflation. This has been true for the Great Depression, the Global Financial Crisis, as well as the Covid-19 crisis. In this paper, we theoretically highlight and discuss the evolution of instruments and approaches monetary-policy decision makers at the Federal Reserve have in lifting inflation to desired levels in times of the zero-lower bound, paying particular focus on more rigorous developments like asymmetric average inflation and temporary price-level targeting.

Keywords: Monetary Policy; Inflation Targeting; Zero Lower Bound; Alternative Monetary Policy Frameworks;
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