Interest Rate Seasonals and the Federal Reserve

Bibliographic Data

ID10171233
AuthorsTruman A Clark (corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume94
Issue1
Pages76-125
Publication date1986-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3808 • E-ISSN: 1537-534X
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/261364
OpenAlexW2017046118
LanguageEN
Citations received7

It is widely believed that one of the Federal Reserve's first important monetary policy achievements was the deseasonalization of interest rates. The Federal Reserve supposedly accomplished this by introducing appropriate seasonal movements into the supplies of currency and high-powered money. This view implicitly assumes that there was no interaction between American and foreign financial markets. Two findings are reported that challenge this conventional view. First, interest rate seasonals disappeared in the United States and other countries at approximately the same time. Second, interest rate seasonal ended approximately 3 years before the seasonal movements of currency and high-powered money changed

Central bank · Currency · Economics · Excess reserves · Federal funds · Federal Reserve Economic Data · Foreign exchange risk · Foreign-exchange reserves · Interest rate · International economics · Monetary economics · Monetary policy · Monetary reform · Money market · Open market operation · Quantitative easing · Reserve currency · Reserve requirement · Economic Theory and Policy · Market Dynamics and Volatility · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact