The Spring/Summer edition of the Cato Journal, the Cato Institute's interdisciplinary public policy journal, is now available online, featuring papers from the 36th Annual Monetary Conference held last November.
Esteemed authors such as Claudio Borio of the Bank for International Settlements, Tobias Adrian of the International Monetary Fund, and Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute for International Economics discuss monetary policy ten years after the financial crisis. Topics include new changes in the Fed’s operating framework, the impact of Fed policies on interest rates and asset prices, the lessons learned from unconventional monetary policy, and the case for a rules-based monetary regime.
In Alt-M, Cato Journal managing editor Amanda Griffiths and editor James A. Dorn provide summaries of the thirteen articles.
The latest Cato Research Brief in Economic Policy showcases a paper by Michael Bordo, director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University. Bordo discusses the role U.S. inflation played in the demise of the Bretton Woods system from 1965-1973.
Steve Hanke, director of the joint Cato Institute-Johns Hopkins Troubled Currencies Project, details his involvement in currency reform in Montenegro circa 1999 during which Montenegro adopted the German mark.
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