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The Treasury General Account and the Fed’s Balance Sheet
WP 26-48 – Changes in the Treasury’s cash management practices after the COVID pandemic increased the Fed’s balance sheet by as much as 2 percentage points of nominal GDP, including the larger buffer required to maintain ample reserve levels.
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Structural Estimation with Unstructured Data
WP 26-40 – Standard macroeconomic data do not cleanly separate the systematic and nonsystematic components of monetary policy. We show that incorporating unstructured text data into the structural estimation of a DSGE model can sharpen this distinction.
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The Dynamics of Ample Reserves
WP 26-34 – How monetary policy is implemented can have significant implications for the dynamics of the central bank’s balance sheet.
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Are Fiscal Transfers Inflationary?
WP 26-23 – We assess the inflationary effects of fiscal transfers by leveraging advances in the identification of fiscal policy shocks within the recently proposed rotation-invariant time-varying structural vector autoregression.