Economic Synopses

2008 - 2024

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2010

The evolving size distribution of banks

Silvio Contessi

\\"How central should the central bank be?\\" a comment

Christopher Neely

Monetary policy and asset prices

Brett W. Fawley and Luciana Juvenal

Economic growth and the global savings glut

Yi Wen

City growth and industry employment reallocation

Ruben Hernandez-Murillo and Christopher J. Martinek

Monetizing the debt

Daniel Thornton

Why do people dislike inflation?

Yi Wen

Recent changes in labor force participation: trend or cycle?

Riccardo DiCecio and Charles Gascon

The first U.S. quantitative easing: the 1930s

Richard Anderson

A jump in consumer loans?

Hoda S. El-Ghazaly and Yadav K. Gopalan

Why aren't the Chinese buying more American goods?

Yi Wen

Measuring financial market stress

Kevin Kliesen and Douglas C. Smith

Using stock market liquidity to forecast recessions

Michael McCracken

Business cycle measures

Kristie Engemann and Michael Owyang

Sovereign debt shadows

Silvio Contessi

The European debt crisis and U.S. economic growth

Chanont Banternghansa and Adrian Peralta-Alva

The monetary base and bank lending: you can lead a horse to water

David Wheelock

Which comes first: inflation or the FOMC's funds rate target?

Daniel Thornton

The effects of large-scale asset purchases on TIPS inflation expectations

Massimo Guidolin and Christopher Neely

Deflation and the Fisher equation

William Gavin

Can the FOMC increase the funds rate without reducing reserves?

Daniel Thornton

Would QE2 have a significant effect on economic growth, employment, or inflation?

Daniel Thornton

Are low interest rates good for consumers?

William Gavin

U.S. historical experience with deflation

Christopher Neely

Is more QE in sight?

Richard Anderson

Japan reenters the foreign exchange market

Brett W. Fawley and Luciana Juvenal

Is the Fed’s definition of price stability evolving?

Kevin Kliesen

The downside of quantitative easing

Daniel Thornton

Mortality rates and the business cycle

Ruben Hernandez-Murillo and Christopher J. Martinek

Monetary policy and longer-term rates: an opportunity for greater transparency

Daniel Thornton

Unemployment and the role of monetary policy

Brett W. Fawley and Luciana Juvenal

When do recessions begin and end?

Kristie Engemann and Michael Owyang

Okun's law: output and unemployment

Christopher Neely

Using FOMC forecasts to forecast the economy

Michael McCracken

Money supply, credit expansion, and housing price inflation

Yi Wen

Why income per worker differs worldwide

Riccardo DiCecio

When will business lending pick up?

David Wheelock

Not your father's oil shock

Kristie Engemann and Michael Owyang

2009

Resolving a banking crisis, the Nordic way

Richard Anderson

Federal Reserve assets: understanding the pieces of the pie

Charles Gascon

Bankers acceptances and unconventional monetary policy: FAQs

Richard Anderson

Recession or depression?

Kevin Kliesen

The root of the problems of the British banks is the same as that of American banks: shaky mortgage-backed securities

Richard Anderson and Andrew W. Mullineux

Economic misfortunes have caused many to reassess their finances, triggering sharp reversals in borrowing and spending habits

Riccardo DiCecio and Charles Gascon

The CPFF is regarded as a hallmark of success among credit-easing policies

Richard Anderson

Recession or depression? part II

Kevin Kliesen

A perspective on the current recession: it's not the \\"worst case\\" yet

Daniel Thornton

What's under the TARP?

Craig P. Aubuchon

Can monetary policy affect GDP growth?

Yi Wen

The global recession

Craig P. Aubuchon and David Wheelock

Lending standards in mortgage markets

Carlos Garriga

What the Libor-OIS spread says

Daniel Thornton

The effect of the Fed’s purchase of long-term treasuries on the yield curve

Daniel Thornton

Taming the long-term spreads

Massimo Guidolin and Yu-Man Tam

The U.S. financial sector's value added: trends now and then

Chanont Banternghansa and Adrian Peralta-Alva

Dating the end of the recession: evaluating the economic indicators

Kevin Kliesen

Uncertainty about when the Fed will raise interest rates

Michael McCracken

Negating the inflation potential of the Fed's lending programs

Daniel Thornton

Asset prices and their effect on the U.S. trade balance

Luciana Juvenal

What caused long-term rates to rise?

Daniel Thornton

U.S. migration over the life cycle

Ruben Hernandez-Murillo

Examining the housing crisis by home price tier

Michelle T. Armesto and Carlos Garriga

World trade: pirated by the downturn

Cletus Coughlin

Commercial bank lending data during the crisis: handle with care

Silvio Contessi and Hoda S. El-Ghazaly

Would quantitative easing sooner have tempered the financial crisis and economic recession?

Daniel Thornton

How not to reduce excess reserves

David Wheelock

The financial services sector: boom and recession

Richard Anderson

The current recession: how bad is it?

Charles Gascon

Is the financial crisis over? a yield spread perspective

Massimo Guidolin and Yu-Man Tam

Monetary policy stance: the view from consumption spending

William Gavin

Home prices: a case for cautious optimism

Rajdeep Sengupta and Yu-Man Tam

International trade integration and business cycle synchronization

Luciana Juvenal

Vacancies and unemployment

Riccardo DiCecio and Charles Gascon

Has the recent real estate bubble biased the output gap?

Chanont Banternghansa and Adrian Peralta-Alva

Personal saving and economic growth

Daniel Thornton

The case for \\"inflation first\\" monetary policy

Daniel Thornton

Bankers' acceptances: yesterday's instrument to restart today's credit markets?

Richard Anderson

The Fed's response to the credit crunch

Craig P. Aubuchon