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14 posts on "Stocks"
May 9, 2014

Crisis Chronicles: Central Bank Crisis Management during Wall Street’s First Crash (1792)

As we observed in our last post on the Continental Currency Crisis, the finances of the United States remained chaotic through the 1780s as the young government moved to establish its credit.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Central Bank, Crisis, Exchange Rates, Lender of Last Resort, Stocks, Treasury | Permalink | Comments (3)
April 9, 2014

Lunch Anyone? Volatility on the Tokyo Stock Exchange around the Lunch Break on May 23, 2013, and Stock Market Circuit Breakers

Stock market circuit breakers halt trading activity on a single stock or an entire exchange if a sudden large price move occurs.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Markets, Liquidity, Stocks | Permalink
May 8, 2013

Are Stocks Cheap? A Review of the Evidence

We surveyed banks, we combed the academic literature, we asked economists at central banks.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Markets, Stocks | Permalink | Comments (21)
July 11, 2012

The Puzzling Pre‑FOMC Announcement “Drift”

For many years, economists have struggled to explain the “equity premium puzzle”—the fact that the average return on stocks is larger than what would be expected to compensate for their riskiness.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Expectations, Financial Markets, Monetary Policy, Stocks | Permalink | Comments (9)
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