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On May 2, 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has sponsored the spring 2008 meeting of the Monetary Policy Workshop.
 
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Recent Articles
Staff ReportsDurable Goods Inventories and the Great Moderation
This paper revisits the hypothesis that changes in inventory management were an important contributor to volatility reductions during the Great Moderation.
By James A Kahn, Staff Reports 325, May 2008
staff reportsGlobalization and Inflation Dynamics: The Impact of Increased Competition
This paper analyzes the potential effect of global market competition on inflation dynamics.
By Argia M. Sbordone, Staff Reports 324, April 2008
staff reportsInvestment Shocks and Business Cycles
This paper confirms the SVAR evidence, but it does so from the perspective of a fully articulated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model.
By Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti , Staff Reports 322, March 2008
staff reportsMonetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
This paper develops and explores policy analysis approaches that are based on either the generalized shock structure for the DSGE model or the explicit modeling of deviations from cross-equation restrictions.
By Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide, Staff Reports 321, March 2008
staff reportsForming Priors for DSGE Models (and How It Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
This paper discusses prior elicitation for the parameters of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models and provides a method for constructing prior distributions for a subset of these parameters from beliefs about the moments of the endogenous variables.
By Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide, Staff Reports 320, March 2008
staff reportsUnderstanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit
In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise.
By Adam B. Ashcraft and Til Schuermann, Staff Reports 318, March 2008
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