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There is some well-documented persistence in deviations of the funds rate from the funds rate target.For example, see Taylor (2001).8 This and subsequent analyses ignore the possibility of a small premium in the futures market, documented by Robertson and Thornton (1997), because any such premium is so small that its existence would have a negligible impact.
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Poole et al. (2002) studied this question.