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FMI Scholars Contribute to a COVID-19 Symposium Published in Southern Economic Journal
Symposium: The Political Economy of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Peter Boettke and Benjamin Powell
The authors introduce a symposium, which seeks to analyze the political economy and
institutional environments that lead to governmental policy responses, all over the
world, that are inconsistent with recommendations from standard welfare economics.
The Federal Reserve's Response to the COVID‐19 Contraction: An Initial Appraisal
Nicolás Cachanosky, Bryan P. Cutsinger, Thomas L. Hogan, William J. Luther, and Alexander W. Salter
The authors summarize and evaluate the Fed's monetary and emergency lending policies
through the end of 2020. They credit the Fed with promoting monetary stability while
maintaining it could have achieved something approximating monetary stability withouth
employing its emergency lending facilities. The authors argue some of its facilities
were unwarranted and unwise as they primarily intended to allocate credit blurring
the line between monetary and fisal policy.
Read all the Symposium papers in the Southern Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 4.
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