Federal Open Market Committee

  • Scaling Back Quantitative Easing: Domestic Recovery at a Foreign Cost

    Scaling Back Quantitative Easing: Domestic Recovery at a Foreign Cost

    Federal Reserve announcements about “tapering,” or reducing the level of quantitative easing, had significant negative impacts on financial asset prices in otherwise robust emerging market economies.

  • What Currency War?

    What Currency War?

    Contrary to analysts’ expectations, US capital outflow was relatively small in 2011 and the US dollar actually appreciated against the currency of emerging markets.