Brian P. Sack

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section

Economist

20th and C Streets, NW

Washington, DC 20551

United States

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Scholarly Papers (28)

1.

Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? The Response of Asset Prices to Monetary Policy Actions and Statements

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Dec 2004
Bilkent University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics
Downloads 3,323 (7,700)
Citation 382

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Measuring monetary policy surprises, FOMC statement, factor models, assest prices

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Large-Scale Asset Purchases by the Federal Reserve: Did They Work?

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 441
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Mar 2010
Peterson Institute, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 2,050 (16,547)
Citation 109

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Term Premium, Portfolio Balance, Zero Bound, Monetary Policy, Duration, Bond Yield

Measuring the Reaction of Monetary Policy to the Stock Market

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jun 2001
Roberto Rigobon and Brian P. Sack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 1,237 (35,067)
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Monetary policy, stock market, identification, heteroskedasticity

Measuring the Reaction of Monetary Policy to the Stock Market

NBER Working Paper No. w8350
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 180 (349,106)
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Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: An Empirical Assessment

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 20 Dec 2004
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
Downloads 1,208 (36,875)
Citation 154

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Deflation, zero bound, monetary policy, term structure, policy expectations

Treasury Inflation-Indexed Debt: A Review of the U.S. Experience

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, May 2004
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Aug 2005
Brian P. Sack and Robert Elsasser
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Downloads 557 (103,327)
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treasury securities, inflation-indexed debt, TIIS, TIPS

Treasury Inflation-Indexed Debt: A Review of the U.S. Experience

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Sep 2002
Brian P. Sack and Robert Elsasser
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Citation 34

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Inflation-indexed debt, TIPS

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The Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 Jan 2002
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 719 (74,561)
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Monetary policy, stock market, yield curve, identification, heteroskedasticity

The Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w8794
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Deriving Inflation Expectations from Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yields

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Aug 2000
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
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Inflation-indexed debt, inflation expectations, treasury market

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Using Treasury Strips to Measure the Yield Curve

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Nov 2000
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
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The U.S. Treasury Yield Curve: 1961 to the Present

FEDS Working Paper No. 2006-28
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Bilkent University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
Downloads 706 (77,451)
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Yield curve, forward rates, on-the-run premium, treasury market

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Does Mortgage Hedging Amplify Movements in Long-Term Interest Rates?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Nov 2003
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Perli
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Downloads 634 (88,837)
Citation 14

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Mortgage hedging, MBS, prepayment risk

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Macroeconomic Implications of Changes in the Term Premium

FRB of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2006-46
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Aug 2007
Glenn D. Rudebusch, Brian P. Sack and Eric T. Swanson
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics
Downloads 560 (103,972)
Citation 12

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Interest rates, Economic forecasting

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The Effects of War Risk on U.S. Financial Markets

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Apr 2003
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 291 (218,101)
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War Risk, Stock Markets, Monetary Policy, Identification, Heteroskedasticity

The Effects of War Risk on U.S. Financial Markets

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Jun 2003
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 187 (337,049)
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War, flight to quality, heteroskedasticity, identification

The Effects of War Risk on U.S. Financial Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w9609
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 65 (728,556)
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The TIPS Yield Curve and Inflation Compensation

FEDS Working Paper No. 2008-05
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jan 2009
Bilkent University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
Downloads 500 (119,573)
Citation 72

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Yield curve, treasury market, inflation compensation, risk premia

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Large-Scale Asset Purchases by the Federal Reserve: Did They Work?

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 41, May 2011
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Nov 2011
Peterson Institute, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 461 (131,773)
Citation 255

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Interest-Rate Smoothing and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Dec 1999
Brian P. Sack and Volker Wieland
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and University of Frankfurt
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Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Expectations

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2006-04, FEDS Working paper 2002-40
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Nov 2002
Bilkent University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics
Downloads 420 (147,095)
Citation 102

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monetary policy, federal funds rate, financial markets

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The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates: Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Mar 2004
Bilkent University - Department of Economics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics
Downloads 394 (158,162)
Citation 325

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Long-term interest rates, excess volatility, inflation expectations

Spillovers Across U.S. Financial Markets

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 May 2003
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Identification, Heteroskedasticity, GARCH, Stock Market, Yield Curve

Spillovers Across U.S. Financial Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w9640
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022
Brian P. Sack and Roberto Rigobon
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Anticipations of Monetary Policy in Financial Markets

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Jul 2001
Joe Lange, Brian P. Sack and William C. Whitesell
Cornerstone Research, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Federal Reserve Board - Division of Monetary Affairs
Downloads 350 (180,349)
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term structure, policy expectations, funds rate, monetary policy

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Central Bank Talk: Does it Matter and Why?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Jan 2004
Brian P. Sack and Donald L. Kohn
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Downloads 348 (181,488)
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Monetary policy, statements, speeches, transparency

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Interpreting the Significance of the Lagged Interest Rate in Estimated Monetary Policy Rules

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
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Monetary policy rules, interest rate smoothing

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Uncertainty, Learning, and Gradual Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Sep 1998
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
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Extracting the Expected Path of Monetary Policy from Futures Rates

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Mar 2003
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 234 (273,663)
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Futures rates, monetary policy expectations, risk premia

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The Effects of Policy Guidance on Perceptions of the Fed's Reaction Function

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 652
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Nov 2013
Katherine Femia, Steven Friedman and Brian P. Sack
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 165 (377,568)
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monetary policy, forward guidance

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A Monetary Policy Rule Based on Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 04 Jun 2003
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section
Downloads 155 (398,255)
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Monetary policy rule, inflation-indexed debt

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Latent Policies: An Extended Example

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Nov 1997
Richard J. Arnott, Brian P. Sack and Chong-En Bai
Boston College, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance
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Inventories, Production Smoothing and the Shape of the Cost Function

Posted: 27 Dec 2004
University of Milan - Department of Environmental Science and Policy (ESP), Einaudi Institute for Economics and FinanceEinaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section and Boston College - Department of Economics

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Cost function, inventories, production smoothing

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Does the Fed Act Gradually? A VAR Analysis

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Posted: 09 Jan 1998
Brian P. Sack
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - Monetary and Financial Market Analysis Section

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