Macro Musings with David Beckworth20 Juli 2020

Bill Nelson on the Fed's Policy Tools in the Post-COVID Economy

Bill Nelson is a Chief Economist and Executive Vice President at the Bank Policy Institute, and formerly a Deputy Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, where his responsibilities included monetary policy analysis, discount window analysis, and financial institution supervision. Bill also worked closely with the Bank for International Settlements on liquidity regulations. Bill is a previous guest of Macro Musings, and he returns to the podcast to discuss the Fed's increasing role in credit policy, the prospects for yield curve control and negative interest rates, and why makeup policy would be uniquely suited to the challenges presently facing the economy.

Transcript for the episode can be found here.

Bill's SIFMA profile: https://www.sifma.org/people/bill-nelson/

Bill's BPI archive: https://bpi.com/tag/bill-nelson/

Bill's American Banker archive: https://www.americanbanker.com/author/william-nelson-ab3618

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