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Rob Roy McGregor
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Publications - 34
Citations - 817
Rob Roy McGregor is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monetary policy & Open market operation. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 34 publications receiving 786 citations. Previous affiliations of Rob Roy McGregor include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Partisan Monetary Policies: Presidential Influence Through the Power of Appointment
TL;DR: This article investigated the channels through which partisan influence from a Presidential administration could affect monetary policy-making and found that the appointments process is the primary mechanism by which partisan differences in monetary policies arise.
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Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of the Federal Open Market Committee
TL;DR: This paper examined the process by which the preferences of the FOMC's individual members are translated into collective policy choices, and explored the role of majoritarian pressures, pressures for consensus, and the power of the chairman in collective decision making.
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Majority Rule, Consensus Building, and the Power of the Chairman: Arthur Burns and the FOMC
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate decision making within the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve, focusing on the competing pressures of majority rule, consensus building, and the power of the Chairman.
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A Long History of FOMC Voting Behavior
TL;DR: In this article, the authors devise and apply a method for estimating monetary policy reaction functions for individual members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the United States Federal Reserve.
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Regional economic conditions and monetary policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used county-level unemployment data and data derived from FOMC meeting transcripts to test the hypothesis that monetary policymakers are influenced by economic conditions in regions that they represent.