In 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve Act, which established the Federal Reserve system as we know it. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act into law on December 23, 1913. When the Fed ...
The Federal Reserve is nearly certain to keep its key interest rate unchanged at its policy meeting this week, just a few ...
We evaluate the decentralized structure of the Federal Reserve System as a mechanism for generating and processing new ideas on banking policy in the 1950s and 1960s. We document that demand for ...