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ArticleSouthern economic journal2021

The Federal Reserve's response to the COVID-19 contraction: An initial appraisal.

Nicolás Cachanosky, Bryan P Cutsinger, Thomas L Hogan, William J Luther, Alexander W Salter

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Article in Southern economic journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors.

Nicolás CachanoskyDepartment of Economics Metropolitan State University-Denver Denver Colorado USA.
Bryan P CutsingerDepartment of Accounting, Economics, and Finance Angelo State University San Angelo Texas USA.
Thomas L HoganAmerican Institute for Economic Research Great Barrington Massachusetts USA.
William J LutherDepartment of Economics Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Florida USA.
Alexander W SalterRawls College of Business, Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We provide an initial assessment of the Federal Reserve's policy response to the COVID-19 contraction. We briefly review the historical episode and consider the standard textbook treatment of a pandemic on the macroeconomy. We summarize and then evaluate the Fed's monetary and emergency lending policies through the end of 2020. We credit the Fed with promoting monetary stability while maintaining that it could have done more. We argue that the Fed could have achieved stability without employing its emergency lending facilities. Although some facilities likely helped to promote general liquidity, others were primarily intended to allocate credit, which blurs the line between monetary and fiscal policy. These credit allocation facilities were unwarranted and unwise.

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COVID‐19credit allocationFederal Reservelending facilitiesmonetary policy

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PMID34230702
PMCPMC8250983

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