An episodic history of modern Fed independence

DJ Smith, PJ Boettke - The Independent Review, 2015 - JSTOR
The Congress established the Federal Reserve, set its monetary policy objectives, and
provided it with operational independence to pursue those objectives. The Federal …

Political economists or political economists? The role of political environments in the formation of fed policy under burns, Greenspan, and Bernanke

AW Salter, DJ Smith - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
How do political environments influence the behavior of economists who transition from
academic and business environments to policymaking positions? And, more specifically, are …

An Episodic History of Modern Fed Independence

DJ Smith, PJ Boettke - The Independent Review: A Journal of …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
We supplement the existing empirical literature on Fed independence with a contextualized
episodic history to corroborate the empirical literature and inform future studies. We examine …

[CITATION][C] A Century of Accommodation: An Anecdotal History of Federal Reserve Independence