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2003, No. 13
Posted 2003-06-01

Why Predict Past FOMC Actions?

by Michael J. Dueker

To gauge how strongly FOMC federal funds target changes in one month affect the change in the monthly average federal funds rate from that month to the next, the author estimates two regressions of the change in the monthly average on its own lagged value.