Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

2 1 Introduction Time-varying volatility exists in U.S. government bond...2, we introduce our methodology

2 percent.2 This increase came after seven years during which we kept ...2 percent inflation. Our decision in December was based on the substantial

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.2 I am grateful to Alain Chaboud, Burcu Duygan-Bump, Andrew Figura, Andreas...2 See Tobias Adrian, Michael Fleming, Jonathan Goldberg, Morgan Lewis,

error2 and, in the assessment of the business cycle conditions, it allows...2See, for example, the statement of the CEPR dating committee: “To reduce

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174.2 172.2 169.5 Mining (except oil and gas) 212 2.30 88.7 83.1 84.2 ...100.2 99.9 101.2 100.2 100.3 92.5 94.2 96.1 99.9 102.2 105.0 Petroleum

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2 percentage points by the end of the decade (see exhibit). In addition...2½ percentage points from 1990 to the mid-1990s. In large part, this drop

2 Resolution Planning Governance ........................................4.1.2 4.2 Derivatives and Trading Activities .........................