Economic Commentary

1982 - 2026

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2011, issue Dec

Concentrated poverty

Dionissi Aliprantis and Mary Zenker

Municipal finance in the face of falling property values

Thomas Fitzpatrick and Mary Zenker

2011, issue Nov

Economic policy uncertainty and small business expansion

Mark Schweitzer and Scott Shane

2011, issue Oct

Reducing the federal deficit: approaches in some other countries

Daniel Carroll and John Lindner

Macroeconomic models, forecasting, and policymaking

Andrea Pescatori and Saeed Zaman

The future of inflation

Joseph Haubrich

The growing difference in college attainment between women and men

Dionissi Aliprantis, Timothy Dunne and Kyle Fee

How well does bankruptcy work when large financial firms fail? Some lessons from Lehman Brothers

Thomas Fitzpatrick and James Thomson

2011, issue Sept

This time may not be that different: labor markets, the Great Recession and the (not so great) recovery

Murat Tasci

Unemployment, labor costs, and recessions: implications for the inflation outlook

Kyle Fee and Mark Schweitzer

2011, issue Aug

Food and energy price shocks: what other prices are affected?

Todd Clark and Saeed Zaman

Do bank branches matter anymore?

Ozgur Ergungor and Stephanie Moulton

Credit flows to businesses during the Great Recession

Pedro Amaral

Resolving large, complex financial firms

Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mark B. Greenlee and James Thomson

2011, issue July

Foreclosure-related vacancy rates

Stephan Whitaker

2011, issue June

Raising the college degree share: How nongraduates figure into it

Stephan Whitaker

Labor market rigidity, unemployment, and the Great Recession

Murat Tasci and Mary Zenker

Shocks and the economic outlook

Kenneth Beauchemin

2011, issue May

Do commodity prices signal inflation?

Owen Humpage

Demographic differences in inflation expectations: what do they really mean?

Brent Meyer and Guhan Venkatu

2011, issue Apr

Buy a home or rent? A better way to choose

Ozgur Ergungor and Saeed Zaman

2011, issue Mar

The Great Recession’s effect on entrepreneurship

Scott Shane

Household balance sheets and the recovery

Timothy Bianco and Filippo Occhino

2011, issue Feb

Homeowner subsidies

Ozgur Ergungor

2011, issue Jan

An end to too big to let fail? The Dodd-Frank Act's orderly liquidation authority

Thomas Fitzpatrick and James Thomson

High unemployment after the recession: mostly cyclical, but adjusting slowly

Murat Tasci

2010, issue 08, vol 2010

W(h)ither the Fed’s balance sheet?

John Carlson, Joseph Haubrich and John Lindner

2010, issue 03, vol 2010

The foreign savings glut: inordinate savers or thriving traders? pp. 4

Owen Humpage

2010, issue 02, vol 2010

Are some prices in the CPI more forward looking than others? We think so pp. 6

Michael F. Bryan and Brent Meyer

2010, issue Dec

Simple ways to forecast inflation: what works best?

Brent Meyer and Mehmet Pasaogullari

The effect of falling home prices on small business borrowing

Mark Schweitzer and Scott Shane

2010, issue Nov

Your credit score is a ranking, not a score

Yuliya Demyanyk

2010, issue Oct

Out of the shadows: projected levels for future REO inventory

Guhan Venkatu

The impact of foreclosures on the housing market

Daniel Hartley

2010, issue Sep

Compensation and risk incentives in banking and finance

Jian Cai, Kent Cherny and Todd T. Milbourn

Unemployment after the recession: a new natural rate?

Murat Tasci and Saeed Zaman

Not your father’s recovery?

Kenneth Beauchemin

2010, issue Aug

Stripdowns and bankruptcy: lessons from agricultural bankruptcy reform

Thomas Fitzpatrick and James Thomson

Is U.S. federal debt too large?

Pedro Amaral

2010, issue Jul

Is debt overhang causing firms to underinvest?

Filippo Occhino

Reforming the over-the-counter derivatives market: what’s to be gained?

Kent Cherny and Ben Craig

2010, issue Jun

Inflation: noise, risk, and expectations

Timothy Bianco and Joseph Haubrich

Monetary policy in a world with interest on reserves

Charles Carlstrom and Timothy Fuerst

2010, issue Mar

Are jobless recoveries the new norm?

Murat Tasci

2009, issue Aug, vol 2009

A new approach to gauging inflation expectations pp. 4

Joseph Haubrich

2009, issue Oct

Conducting monetary policy when interest rates are near zero

Charles Carlstrom and Andrea Pescatori

2009, issue Sep

Why didn’t Canada’s housing market go bust?

James (Jim) MacGee

2009, issue Jul

Credit default swaps and their market function

Kent Cherny and Ben Craig

2009, issue Jun

The check is dead! Long live the check! A Check 21 update

Paul Bauer and Geoffrey Gerdes

2009, issue May

Ten myths about subprime mortgages

Yuliya Demyanyk

2009, issue Apr

Foreclosure metrics

Timothy Dunne and Guhan Venkatu

2009, issue Mar

Replacing the dollar with special drawing rights--will it work this time?

Owen Humpage

2009, issue Feb

Effective practices in crisis resolution and the case of Sweden

Kent Cherny and Ozgur Ergungor

2009, issue Jan

Adjustable-rate mortgages and the Libor surprise

Mark Schweitzer and Guhan Venkatu