Evan Koenig on the Fed’s Review Period, Monetary Regimes, and Yield Curves

Evan Koenig is a senior vice president and a principal policy advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas where he has been since 1988. Evan joins the show today to talk about his time at the Fed and some of his research. David and Evan also discuss where the Federal Reserve’s review is going in the next six months, Evan’s preferred version of nominal GDP targeting, and how important the yield curve is relative to other credit indicators.

 

Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/08052019/evan-koenig-feds-review-period-monetary-regimes-and-yield-curves

 

Evan’s Dallas Fed bio: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economists/koenig.aspx

Evan’s research profile: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pko435.html

 

Related Links:

 

*Like a Good Neighbor: Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, and the Distribution of Risk* by Evan Koenig

https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb13q2a3.pdf

 

*Credit Indicators as Predictors of Economic Activity: A Real-Time VAR Analysis* by N Kundan Kishor and Evan Koenig

https://econpapers.repec.org/article/wlyjmoncb/v_3a46_3ay_3a2014_3ai_3a2-3_3ap_3a545-564.htm

 

*Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound* by Michael Woodford

https://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/sympos/2012/mw.pdf?sm=jh083112-4

 

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