Finance and Economics Discussion Series

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2008-09: The human capital that matters: expected returns and the income of affluent households

Sean D. Campbell and George M. Korniotis

2008-08: The "growing pains" of TIPS issuance

Jennifer E. Roush

2008-07: Alternatives for distressed banks and the panics of the Great Depression

Mark Carlson

2008-06: Challenges in macro-finance modeling

Don Kim

2008-05: The TIPS yield curve and inflation compensation

Refet S. Gürkaynak, Brian Sack and Jonathan Wright

2008-04: Footnotes aren’t enough: the impact of pension accounting on stock values

Julia Coronado, Olivia Mitchell, Steven Sharpe and S. Blake Nesbitt

2008-03: Monetary policy actions and long-run inflation expectations

Michael Kiley

2008-02: Recent trends in the number and size of bank branches: an examination of likely determinants

Timothy H. Hannan and Gerald A. Hanweck

2008-01: The jumbo-conforming spread: a semiparametric approach

Shane M. Sherlund

2007-68: Continuous time extraction of a nonstationary signal with illustrations in continuous low-pass and band-pass filtering

Tucker Sprague McElroy and Thomas M. Trimbur

2007-67: Nominal mortgage contracts and the effects of inflation on portfolio allocation

Joseph B. Nichols

2007-66: Stability of risk preference

Claudia R. Sahm

2007-65: Bank core deposits and the mitigation of monetary policy

Lamont Black, Diana Hancock and Wayne Passmore

2007-64: Two pitfalls of linearization methods

Jinill Kim and Sunghyun Henry Kim

2007-63: Explaining a productive decade

Stephen D. Oliner, Daniel E. Sichel. and Kevin Stiroh

2007-62: Risk and concentration in payment and securities settlement systems

David C. Mills and Travis Dean Nesmith

2007-61: The evolution of household income volatility

Karen E. Dynan, Douglas Elmendorf and Daniel E. Sichel

2007-60: Gauging the uncertainty of the economic outlook from historical forecasting errors

David Reifschneider and Peter Tulip

2007-59: Hyperbolic discounting and uniform savings floors

Benjamin Andrew Malin

2007-58: Imperfect monitoring and the discounting of inside money

David C. Mills

2007-57: Financial market perceptions of recession risk

Thomas B. King, Andrew Theo Levin and Roberto Perli

2007-56: Welfare-maximizing monetary policy under parameter uncertainty

Rochelle M. Edge, Thomas Laubach and John C. Williams

2007-55: Implied interest rate skew, term premiums, and the "conundrum"

J. Benson Durham

2007-54: Reserve requirement systems in OECD countries

Yueh-Yun C. O’Brien

2007-53: Documentation of the Research and Statistics Division’s estimated DSGE model of the U.S. economy: 2006 version

Rochelle M. Edge, Michael Kiley and Jean-Philippe Laforte

2007-52: Do high debt payments hinder household consumption smoothing?

Kathleen W. Johnson and Geng Li

2007-51: The effects of past entry, market consolidation, and expansion by incumbents on the probability of entry

Robert M. Adams and Dean F. Amel

2007-50: Choice of mortgage contracts: evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Brahima Coulibaly and Geng Li

2007-49: Operational problems and aggregate uncertainty in the federal funds market

Elizabeth Klee

2007-48: Habit persistence, non-separability between consumption and leisure, or rule-of thumb consumers: which accounts for the predictability of consumption growth?

Michael Kiley

2007-47: Credit derivatives and risk management

Michael S. Gibson

2007-46: Cracking the conundrum

David Backus and Jonathan Wright

2007-45: Does health affect portfolio choice?

Paul Smith and David Love

2007-44: Will monetary policy become more of a science?

Frederic Mishkin

2007-43: Combining forecasts from nested models

Todd Clark and Michael McCracken

2007-42: Averaging forecasts from VARs with uncertain instabilities

Todd Clark and Michael McCracken

2007-41: Forecasting with small macroeconomic VARs in the presence of instabilities

Todd Clark and Michael McCracken

2007-40: Housing and the monetary transmission mechanism

Frederic Mishkin

2007-39: An efficiency perspective on the gains from mergers and asset purchases

Sugata Ray and Missaka Warusawitharana

2007-38: Transaction costs and consumption

Geng Li

2007-37: The rise in U.S. household indebtedness: causes and consequences

Karen E. Dynan and Donald L. Kohn

2007-36: Why do firms offer risky defined benefit pension plans?

David Love, Paul A. Smith and David W. Wilcox

2007-35: Executive compensation: a new view from a long-term perspective, 1936-2005

Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks

2007-34: News, noise, and estimates of the "true" unobserved state of the economy

Dennis J. Fixler and Jeremy J. Nalewaik

2007-33: Robust monetary policy with imperfect knowledge

Athanasios Orphanides and John C. Williams

2007-32: Labor reallocation over the business cycle: new evidence from internal migration

Raven E. Saks and Abigail Wozniak

2007-31: Federal Home Loan Bank advances and commercial bank portfolio composition

W. Scott Frame, Diana Hancock and Wayne Passmore

2007-30: Employer-to-employer flows in the United States: estimates using linked employer-employee data

Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger and Erika McEntarfer

2007-29: Bank commercial loan fair value practices

John Tschirhart, James O'Brien, Michael Moise and Emily Yang

2007-28: Racial dispersion in consumer credit interest rates

Wendy Edelberg