Chicago Fed Letter

1987 - 2026

From Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lauren Wiese ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

2026, volume 519

Could Instant Payments or Stablecoins Be the Answer to 24/7 Margin Calls?

David DeCarlo

2026, volume 517

How the U.S. Treasury Futures Market and the Basis Trade Could Be Affected by the Treasury Clearing Mandate: Part 2—The Possible Role of Cross-Margining pp. 8

Ketan B. Patel

2026, volume 516

How the U.S. Treasury Futures Market and the Basis Trade Could Be Affected by the Treasury Clearing Mandate: Part 1—A Primer pp. 8

Ketan B. Patel

2026, articles 518

Firm Growth from the Artificial Intelligence Boom

Joel David, Gustavo de Souza and Adalyn Schommer

2025, volume 515

Concentrated Growth: The Role of the IT Sector pp. 9

Joel David, Gustavo de Souza and Adalyn Schommer

2025, volume 514

Expirations and Early Exits of LIHTC Units: Implications for the Affordable Housing Stock pp. 10

Dustin Ingram and Maxwell Jaffe

2025, volume 513

Forecasting Inflation During the Pandemic: Who Got It Right? pp. 11

Francois Gourio and Kavitya Sarma

2025, volume 512

What Can We Learn About the Costs and Benefits of Tariffs from a Trade Model?

Caydn Hillier, Bart Hobijn, Jim Royal and Jing Zhang

2025, volume 511

Tracking Economic Underperformance in Counties Across the U.S. and Seventh District States pp. 9

Jane Dokko

2025, volume 510

The Role of Primary Dealers in Mitigating Liquidity Risk at U.S. Central Counterparties pp. 8

Cindy E. Hull and Brett Solimine

2025, volume 509

Small Business Employment in the Pandemic Era and Beyond pp. 10

Kristin F. Butcher, Anne Fournier, Luojia Hu and Diego Jimenez-Hernandez

2025, volume 507

How Have Capital Levels of Futures Commission Merchants Changed Since the Global Financial Crisis? pp. 10

Shengwu Du and Ketan B. Patel

2025, volume 506

Blending Traditional and Alternative Labor Market Data with CHURN

Scott Brave, Ben Henken and Ezra Karger

2025, articles 505

Shareholder Power and Workers’ Labor Market Outcomes pp. 6

Hyunseob Kim

2024, volume 504

Are the Federal Reserve’s “Other Deposits” Sensitive to Changes in Interest Rates? pp. 8

Cindy E. Hull

2024, volume 502

The Evolution of Disagreement About Long-Run Inflation, 2007–24

Jonas Fisher and Kavitya Sarma

2024, volume 501

Exposure to Cyber Risk and Inadequate Cybersecurity Regulations: Evidence from Municipalities

Filippo Curti, Ivan T. Ivanov, Marco Macchiavelli and Tom Zimmermann

2024, volume 500

The Broadening Impact of Rising Wildfire Smoke in the United States pp. 6

Mark Borgschulte, Cameron Deal and Bhashkar Mazumder

2024, volume 497

How Concentrated Is the Clearing Ecosystem and How Has It Changed Since 2007? pp. 9

Ketan B. Patel

2024, volume 496

New Evidence on Where Payday Lenders Locate Their Storefronts

Nathan Anderson, Tori Healey and Jonathan Lanning

2024, volume 495

Residential mobility and neighborhood characteristics in Chicago pp. 9

Sharada Dharmasankar, Taz George, Robin G. Newberger and Mark O'Dell

2024, volume 494

Privately Placed Debt on Life Insurers’ Balance Sheets: Part 2—Increasing Complexity pp. 8

Anne Fournier, Ralf R. Meisenzahl and Andy Polacek

2024, volume 493

Privately Placed Debt on Life Insurers’ Balance Sheets: Part 1—A Primer pp. 9

Anne Fournier, Ralf R. Meisenzahl and Andy Polacek

2024, volume 492

Why the Russian invasion of Ukraine moved wheat futures prices more in the U.S. than in Europe pp. 10

Ketan B. Patel

2024

New Evidence on Where Payday Lenders Locate Their Storefronts

Nathan Anderson, Tori Healey and Jonathan Lanning

2023, volume no 491

What Does Everything Besides the Unemployment Rate Tell Us About Labor Market Tightness? pp. 7

Levi Bognar, Jason Faberman, Elizabeth Kepner and Emma LaGuardia

2023, volume no 490

Persistently Pessimistic: Consumer and Small Business Sentiment After the Covid Recession pp. 9

Scott Brave and Jacob S. Herbstman

2023, volume No 489

Land Value Taxes—What They Are and Where They Come From pp. 5

Elizabeth Kepner and Richard Mattoon

2023, volume no 487

What Is Driving the Differences in Inflation Within the Midwest? pp. 10

Elainia Gupta and Leslie McGranahan

2023, volume no 486

Immigration and the Labor Market in the Post-Pandemic Recovery pp. 8

Kristin Butcher, Lucas Cain, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and Ryan Perry

2023, volume no 485

Why Housing Has Been So Strong, but Might Not Be for Long pp. 7

Gene Amromin, Jonas Fisher and Marcelo Veracierto

2023, volume No 484

How FAIR Plans Confronted Redlining in America pp. 8

Ramzee Nwokolo

2023, volume no 483

Past and Future Effects of the Recent Monetary Policy Tightening pp. 6

Stefania D'Amico and Thomas King

2023, volume no 482

The Rise of Intangible Investment and the Transmission of Monetary Policy pp. 8

Joel David and Francois Gourio

2023, volume no 481

Higher Home Prices and Higher Rates Mean Bigger Affordability Hurdles for the U.S. Consumer

Max Gillet and Cindy E. Hull

2023, volume no 480

UK Pension Market Stress in 2022 - Why It Happened and Implications for the U.S

Santiago I. Sordo Palacios and Ketan B. Patel

2023, volume no 479

A Retrospective on the Crypto Runs of 2022 pp. 7

Radhika Patel and Jonathan Rose

2023, volume no 478

What is driving the differences in inflation across U.S. regions? pp. 8

Elainia Gupta and Leslie McGranahan

2023, volume No 477

Unit Labor Costs and Inflation in the Non-Housing Service Sector

Gadi Barlevy and Luojia Hu

2023, volume No 476

How Tight is U.S. Monetary Policy

Filippo Ferroni, Jonas Fisher and Leonardo Melosi

2023, volume No 475

The Recent Steepening of Phillips Curves

Bart Hobijn, Russell Miles, James Royal and Jing Zhang

2022, volume No 474

Distributed Ledger Technology

Alessandro Cocco, Jesse Maniff, David Rodziewicz and Michael Warner

2022, volume No 473

Why the Automotive Chip Crisis Isn't Over (Yet)

Kristin Dziczek

2022, volume No 471

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Health Insurers

Ishira Shrivatsa

2022, articles 468

How Common Was Blockbusting in the Postwar U.S.? pp. 6

Katherine Bennett, Daniel Hartley and Jonathan Rose

2022, articles 466

How Interconnected Are Cryptocurrencies and What Does This Mean for Risk Management pp. 5

Filippo Ferroni

2022, articles 465

The Effects of the “Great Resignation” on Labor Market Slack and Inflation pp. 7

Renato Faccini, Leonardo Melosi and Russell Miles

2022

Sources of Fluctuation in Short-Term Yields and Recession Probabilities

Andrea Ajello, Luca Benzoni, Makena Schwinn, Yannick Timmer and Francisco Vazquez-Grande

What Is Driving U.S. Inflation amid a Global Inflation Surge?

Bart Hobijn, Russell Miles, James Royal and Jing Zhang

What Is the Impact of Monetary Policy on Households’ Desired Labor Supply?

Cristiano Cantore, Filippo Ferroni, Haroon Mumtaz and Angeliki Theophilopoulou