Central bank policies in the United States of America are created by the Federal Reserve System, which was created in 1913 in response to a financial crisis. It is the lender of last resort for US Banks. You can actually follow the Board of Governors on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/federalreserve.
You can see more about this institution at their website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/
Here are the hundred most cited publications with "Federal Reserve" in their title. It can be quite illuminating for cryptocurrency researchers.
- "What explains the stock market's reaction to Federal Reserve policy?". BS Bernanke, KN Kuttner. 2005. Wiley Online Library The Journal of finance. 1795 cites.
- "A history of the Federal Reserve". A Meltzer, CAE Goodhart. 2005. cambridge.org Macroeconomic Dynamics. 990 cites.
- "Federal Reserve information and the behavior of interest rates". CD Romer, DH Romer. 2000. aeaweb.org American Economic Review. 802 cites.
- "Large-Scale Asset Purchases by the Federal Reserve: Do They Work?". J Gagnon. 2010. books.google.com . 649 cites.
- "Federal Reserve interest rate targeting, rational expectations, and the term structure". GD Rudebusch. 1995. Elsevier Journal of monetary Economics. 630 cites.
- "Secrets of the temple: How the Federal Reserve runs the country". W Greider. 1989. books.google.com . 602 cites.
- "Bond yields and the Federal Reserve". M Piazzesi. 2005. journals.uchicago.edu Journal of Political Economy. 526 cites.
- "Monetary politics: The Federal Reserve and the politics of monetary policy". JT Woolley. 1985. books.google.com . 471 cites.
- "Macroeconomic effects of federal reserve forward guidance [with comments and discussion]". JR Campbell, CL Evans, JDM Fisher…. 2012. JSTOR Brookings Papers on …. 375 cites.
- "The signaling channel for Federal Reserve bond purchases". MD Bauer, GD Rudebusch. 2013. papers.ssrn.com . 329 cites.
- "Federal Reserve Board's semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress". A Greenspan. 2005. February. 286 cites.
- "The fed funds futures rate as a predictor of Federal Reserve policy". JT Krueger, KN Kuttner. 1996. Wiley Online Library Journal of Futures Markets: Futures …. 264 cites.
- "Should the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve be concerned about fiscal policy?". M Canzoneri, R Cumby, B Diba. 2002. kansascityfed.org Rethinking stabilization policy. 264 cites.
- "Crisis and responses: the Federal Reserve in the early stages of the financial crisis". SG Cecchetti. 2009. aeaweb.org Journal of Economic Perspectives. 246 cites.
- "The international origins of the Federal Reserve System". JL Broz. 1997. books.google.com . 224 cites.
- "The evolution of macro models at the Federal Reserve Board". F Brayton, A Levin, R Lyon, JC Williams. 1997. Elsevier Carnegie-Rochester Conference …. 223 cites.
- "Public Interpretation of Federal Reserve Discount Rate Changes: Evidence on the" Announcement Effect"". RN Waud. 1970. JSTOR Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society. 221 cites.
- "The adjustment of expectations to a change in regime: A study of the founding of the Federal Reserve". NG Mankiw, JA Miron, DN Weil. 1987. nber.org . 221 cites.
- "The Federal Reserve and the financial crisis". B Bernanke. 2013. books.google.com . 219 cites.
- "-Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1917-1933". ER Wicker. 1966. . 214 cites.
- "Central banking in the credit turmoil: An assessment of Federal Reserve practice". M Goodfriend. 2011. Elsevier Journal of Monetary Economics. 211 cites.
- "The Federal Reserve-MIT economic model". F De Leeuw, EM Gramlich. 1968. ideas.repec.org Federal Reserve Bulletin. 198 cites.
- "The policy preferences of the US Federal Reserve". R Dennis. 2006. Wiley Online Library Journal of Applied Econometrics. 193 cites.
- "Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, class, and corporate capitalism, 1890-1913". J Livingston. 1989. books.google.com . 192 cites.
- "Have increases in Federal Reserve transparency improved private sector interest rate forecasts?". ET Swanson. 2006. JSTOR Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 185 cites.
- "Monetary intervention mitigated banking panics during the great depression: quasi-experimental evidence from a federal reserve district border, 1929–1933". G Richardson, W Troost. 2009. journals.uchicago.edu Journal of Political Economy. 178 cites.
- "A comparison of forecast performance between federal reserve staff forecasts, simple reduced‐form models, and a DSGE model". RM Edge, MT Kiley, JP Laforte. 2010. Wiley Online Library Journal of Applied …. 167 cites.
- "The Channels of Monetary Policy: A Further Report on the Federal Reserve—MIT Model". F De Leeuw, EM Gramlich. 1969. Wiley Online Library The Journal of Finance. 166 cites.
- "The transmission of Federal Reserve tapering news to emerging financial markets". J Aizenman, M Binici, MM Hutchison. 2014. nber.org . 162 cites.
- "A brief history of the 1987 stock market crash with a discussion of the federal reserve response". MA Carlson. 2007. papers.ssrn.com . 161 cites.
- "A friction model of daily Bundesbank and Federal Reserve intervention". GJ Almekinders, SCW Eijffinger. 1996. Elsevier Journal of Banking & Finance. 150 cites.
- "A model of Federal Reserve behavior". JH Wood. 1966. ideas.repec.org . 149 cites.
- "Federal Reserve System". WW Wiles. 2015. ftcpublic.commentworks.com System. 146 cites.
- "Presidential elections and Federal Reserve policy: An empirical test". KB Grier. 1987. JSTOR Southern Economic Journal. 144 cites.
- "The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study on mortgage lending revisited". JH Carr, IF Megbolugbe. 1993. JSTOR Journal of Housing Research. 144 cites.
- "Market perceptions of Federal Reserve policy and the weekly monetary announcements". GA Hardouvelis. 1984. Elsevier Journal of Monetary Economics. 142 cites.
- "The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the rise of the dollar as an international currency, 1914–1939". B Eichengreen, M Flandreau. 2012. Springer Open Economies Review. 142 cites.
- "Presidential Influence on the Federal Reserve in the 1970s". N Beck. 1982. JSTOR American Journal of Political Science. 142 cites.
- "federal reserve system, its origin and growth". PM Warburg. 1930. agris.fao.org . 138 cites.
- "The strategy and consistency of Federal Reserve monetary policy, 1924-1933". DC Wheelock. 2004. books.google.com . 137 cites.
- "… economies: proceedings and contributions from participants of a December 1978 conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis". JH Kareken, N Wallace. 1980. Federal reserve bank of Minneapolis . 136 cites.
- "Publicity of debate and the incentive to dissent: evidence from the US Federal Reserve". EE Meade, D Stasavage. 2008. Wiley Online Library The Economic Journal. 132 cites.
- "How effective were the Federal Reserve emergency liquidity facilities? Evidence from the asset‐backed commercial paper money market mutual fund liquidity facility". B Duygan‐Bump, P Parkinson…. 2013. Wiley Online Library The Journal of …. 132 cites.
- "The creature from Jekyll Island: a second look at the Federal Reserve". GE Griffin, M Bramhall. 1998. brianrwright.com . 131 cites.
- "Discount window borrowing, monetary policy, and the post-October 6, 1979 Federal Reserve operating procedure". M Goodfriend. 1983. richmondfed.org Journal of Monetary Economics. 131 cites.
- "and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis". LJ Christiano. 1980. minneapolisfed.org . 131 cites.
- "Monetary policy, loan liquidation, and industrial conflict: the Federal Reserve and the open market operations of 1932". G Epstein, T Ferguson. 1984. cambridge.org The Journal of Economic History. 131 cites.
- "Crisis and responses: the Federal Reserve and the financial crisis of 2007-2008". SG Cecchetti. 2008. nber.org . 128 cites.
- "The monetary policy of the federal reserve: a history". RL Hetzel. 2008. books.google.com . 127 cites.
- "The efficiency of the Federal Reserve in providing check processing services". PW Bauer, D Hancock. 1993. Elsevier Journal of Banking & Finance. 124 cites.
- "Banking reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923". RC West. 1977. Cornell Univ Pr . 119 cites.
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