Ben S. Bernanke

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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1.

Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: An Empirical Assessment

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 20 Dec 2004
Ben S. Bernanke, Vincent R. Reinhart and Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
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Deflation, zero bound, monetary policy, term structure, policy expectations

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International Capital Flows and the Return to Safe Assets in the United States, 2003-2007

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1014
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 May 2011
Ben S. Bernanke, Carol C. Bertaut, Laurie DeMarco and Steven B. Kamin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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global saving glut, interest rates, capital flows, mortgage-backed securities

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The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework

NBER Working Paper No. w6455
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 21 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

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What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

Staff Report No. 174, October 2003
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Mar 2006
Ben S. Bernanke, Kenneth N. Kuttner and Kenneth N. Kuttner
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Williams College
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monetary policy, stock prices

What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

NBER Working Paper No. w10402
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Kenneth N. Kuttner and Kenneth N. Kuttner
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Williams College
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Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility

NBER Working Paper No. w7559
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 06 May 2000 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics
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Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

NBER Working Paper No. w5146
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics
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Credit, Money, and Aggregate Demand

NBER Working Paper No. w2534
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Alan S. Blinder
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w1054
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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The Gold Standard, Deflation, and Financial Crisis in the Great Depression: An International Comparison

NBER Working Paper No. w3488
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Harold James
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of History
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The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression: A Comparative Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w4814
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Measuring Monetary Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w5145
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 24 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Ilian Mihov
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and INSEAD
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Inflation Targeting: A New Framework for Monetary Policy?

NBER Working Paper No. w5893
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Frederic S. Mishkin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Inflation Forecasts and Monetary Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w6157
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Michael Woodford
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
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The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transnission

NBER Working Paper No. w3487
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Alan S. Blinder
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Agency Costs, Collateral, and Business Fluctuations

NBER Working Paper No. w2015
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics
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Is Growth Exogenous? Taking Mankiw, Romer and Weil Seriously

NBER Working Paper No. w8365
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Jul 2001 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Refet S. Gürkaynak
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Bilkent University - Department of Economics
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Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach

NBER Working Paper No. w10220
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Jean Boivin, Jean Boivin and Piotr Eliasz
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Columbia Business SchoolHEC Montreal and Princeton University
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Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment

NBER Working Paper No. w0502
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Alternative Explanations of the Money-Income Correlation

NBER Working Paper No. w1842
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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On the Predictive Power of Interest Rates and Interest Rate Spreads

NBER Working Paper No. w3486
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

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The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

NBER Working Paper No. w4789
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 17 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

Posted: 15 Sep 1999
Ben S. Bernanke, Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Financial Fragility and Economic Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w2318
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics
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Banking in General Equilibrium

NBER Working Paper No. w1647
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics
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Monetary Policy Strategies for a Low-Rate Environment

FEDS Working Paper No. 2019-9
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2019
Ben S. Bernanke, Michael T. Kiley and John M. Roberts
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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interest rates, Model comparison, Monetary policy

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Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy: Observations from Six Industrialized Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w4082
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 11 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Frederic S. Mishkin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Nominal Wage Stickiness and Aggregate Supply in the Great Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w5439
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Kevin Carey
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and World Bank Institute
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Adjustment Costs, Durables, and Aggregate Consumption

NBER Working Paper No. w1038
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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The Liquidity Effect and Long-Run Neutrality

NBER Working Paper No. w6608
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Ilian Mihov
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and INSEAD
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Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment

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Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment

NBER Working Paper No. w8379
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jul 2001 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Jean Boivin and Jean Boivin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Columbia Business SchoolHEC Montreal
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Monetary Policy in a Data-Rich Environment

Posted: 02 Oct 2001
Jean Boivin, Jean Boivin and Ben S. Bernanke
Columbia Business SchoolHEC Montreal and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Dynamic factor model, Policy reaction function, Taylor rule, VAR

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Unemployment, Inflation, and Wages in the American Depression: are There Lessons for Europe?

NBER Working Paper No. w2862
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Martin A. Parkinson
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Independent
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What Does the Bundesbank Target?

NBER Working Paper No. w5764
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Jan 1997 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Ilian Mihov
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and INSEAD
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Procyclical Labor Productivity and Competing Theories of the Business Cycle: Some Evidence from Interwar U.S. Manufacturing Industries

NBER Working Paper No. w3503
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and Martin L. Parkinson
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Government of the State of Michigan - Department of Treasury
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Permanent Income, Liquidity, and Expenditure on Automobiles: Evidence from Panel Data

NBER Working Paper No. w0756
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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The Sources of Labor Productivity Variation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1947-80

NBER Working Paper No. w0712
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Alternative Nonnested Specification Tests of Time Series Investment Models

NBER Working Paper No. t0049
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2022
Ben S. Bernanke, Henning Bohn and Peter C. Reiss
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression: an Analysis of Eightmanufacturing Industries

NBER Working Paper No. w1642
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 29 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2021
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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The Cyclical Behavior of Industrial Labor Markets: A Comparison of the Pre-War and Post-War Eras

NBER Working Paper No. w1376
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 06 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2022
Ben S. Bernanke and James L. Powell
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of California, Berkeley
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings in the Depression: an Analysis of Eightmanufacturing Industries

NBER Working Paper No. w1642
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 21 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2022
Ben S. Bernanke
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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