131 posts from "2012"
November 9, 2012
Historical Echoes: How Do You Say “Wall Street” in Latin?
The Forum. This is where finance happened in ancient Rome.
November 7, 2012
Federal Reserve Liquidity Facilities Gross $22 Billion for U.S. Taxpayers
During the 2007-09 crisis, the Federal Reserve took many measures to mitigate
disruptions in financial markets, including the introduction or expansion of
liquidity facilities.
Posted at 7:00 am in Fed Funds, Financial Markets, Liquidity, Monetary Policy | Permalink | Comments (3)
November 5, 2012
Nudging Inflation Expectations: An Experiment
Managing consumers’ inflation expectations is of critical importance to central banks in the conduct of monetary policy.
November 2, 2012
Historical Echoes: FOMC … “Minutes” by Minutes
Kathleen McKiernan Although the Federal Reserve was founded in 1913, the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, wasn’t created until passage of the Banking Act of 1933. Congress established the name and legal structure of the FOMC as a formal committee of the twelve Reserve Banks. In 1935, a System reorganization added the seven-member Board […]
October 31, 2012
In a Relationship: Evidence of Underwriters’ Efforts to Stabilize the Share Price in the Facebook IPO
Stocks are usually offered in initial public offerings (IPOs) at a discount, leading to large first-day IPO returns.
Posted at 7:00 am in Corporate Finance | Permalink
October 29, 2012
Weakness in the U.S. IPO Market
The high valuations achieved by recent social-media- and Internet-related initial public offerings (IPOs) and their disappointing aftermarket performance have rekindled the specter of the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s.
Posted at 7:00 am in Corporate Finance | Permalink
October 15, 2012
The Minimum Balance at Risk: A Proposal to Stabilize Money Market Funds
In a June post, we explained why the design of money market funds (MMFs) makes them prone to runs and thereby contributes to financial instability. Today, we outline a proposal for strengthening MMFs that we’ve put forward in a recent New York Fed staff report.
October 12, 2012
Historical Echoes: It’s Not Easy Being Green
COLOURlovers is a website for people obsessed with color and design.
Posted at 7:00 am in Historical Echoes | Permalink
October 10, 2012
Tracking the U.S. Banking Industry
The New York Fed has recently published the first edition of a new quarterly report tracking the aggregate financial condition of consolidated U.S. banking organizations. In this post, we describe the methodology used to construct the statistics in the report as well as present and briefly discuss some of the findings.
October 5, 2012
Historical Echoes: “Too Big to Fail” Is One Big Phrase
It’s a book! It’s an HBO film! It’s a T-shirt! It’s the subject of one of the two top quotes of 2009!
Posted at 7:00 am in Historical Echoes | Permalink
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