The Regional Economist

1993 - 2024

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2015, articles Oct

Trapped: Few Developing Countries Can Climb the Economic Ladder or Stay There

Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen

President's Message: Some Considerations for Dividend Payments to Fed Member Banks

James Bullard

Recovery from the Great Recession Has Varied around the World

Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen

Aging and the Economy: The Japanese Experience

Maria Canon, Marianna Kudlyak and Marisa Reed

The Composition of Long-term Unemployment Is Changing toward Older Workers

Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Faisal Sohail

Stimulus Spending Had Spillover Effects, Thanks to Commuters

Bill Dupor

National Overview: Growth Is Resilient in the Midst of Uncertainty

Kevin Kliesen

District Overview: \\"Leaving the Nest\\" Is Easier in Arkansas than Elsewhere in the District and Nation

Maria Canon and Charles Gascon

Metro Profile: Jonesboro Outperforming Arkansas and Nation in Some Key Categories

Charles Gascon and Michael Pakko

2015, articles July

Asset Bubbles: Detecting and Measuring Them Are Not Easy Tasks

Silvio Contessi and Usa Kerdnunvong

President's Message: Reassessing Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound

James Bullard

Lifetime Benefits of an Education Have Never Been So High

Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Oil Prices and Inflation Expectations: Is There a Link?

Alejandro Badel and Joseph McGillicuddy

Changes in Income Gaps Might Overstate Changes in Welfare Gaps

Juan Sanchez and Lijun Zhu

National Overview: The U.S. Economy Stumbles Out of the Gate—Again

Kevin Kliesen

District Overview: As in the Nation, New Jobs in the District Are Concentrated in Low-Paying Industries

Maximiliano Dvorkin and Hannah Shell

Metro Profile: Bowling Green, Ky.: Cars, College and Caves

Georgette A Fernandez Laris and Charles Gascon

States' Efforts To Curtail Unauthorized Immigration Draw More Attention

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Jonathan Munemo and Santiago Pinto

2015, articles April

Regional vs. Global: How Are Countries' Business Cycles Moving Together These Days?

Diana A. Cooke, Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Michael Owyang

President's Message: A Comparison of Unconventional Monetary Policy in the U.S. and Europe

James Bullard

Contract Enforcement, Corruption Controls and Other Institutions Affect Trade, Too

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Yang Liu and Suryadipta Roy

Living Arrangements Matter Not Just to Your Parents but Also to Policymakers

Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Stimulus Grants and Schools: How Was the Money Spent?

Bill Dupor

Costs of Defaulting on Credit Card Debt Depend on the \\"Exit\\" Taken by Borrower Costs of Defaulting on Credit Card Debt Depend on the \\"Exit\\" Taken by Borrower Costs of Defaulting on Credit Card Debt Depend on the \\"Exit\\" Taken by Borrower

Juan Sanchez

Metro Profile: A Familiar Name with an Economy Facing Familiar Challenges

Georgette A Fernandez Laris and Charles Gascon

District Overview: Track Records for District, Nation Differ on Startups, Which Are an Important Driver of Job Growth

Maria Canon

National Overview: Growth Is Modest in GDP but Strong in Labor Markets

Kevin Kliesen

2015, articles Jan

Growth around the World Is Still Below the Trend; U.S. Faring Better than Most

Juan Sanchez

Liftoff: A Comparison of Two Normalization Cycles

James Bullard

Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe Recalls the Lost Decade in Latin America

Maria A. Arias and Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Measuring Underground Economy Can Be Done, but It Is Difficult

Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Youth Labor Force Participation Continues To Fall, but It Might Be for a Good Reason

Maria Canon and Marianna Kudlyak

Assessing the Health of the Labor Market: The Unemployment Rate vs. Other Indicators

Maximiliano Dvorkin

\\"Where's the Wage Pressure?\\"

James D. Eubanks and David Wiczer

Faster Real GDP Growth during Recoveries Tends To Be Associated with Growth of Jobs in \\"Low-Paying\\" Industries

Kevin Kliesen and Lowell Ricketts

National Overview: Pace of Growth Is Expected To Quicken

Kevin Kliesen

District Overview: Income Inequality Is Growing in the District, but Not as Fast as in the Nation

Maximiliano Dvorkin and Hannah Shell

Metro Profile: A Tale of Four Cities: Widespread Growth in Northwest Arkansas

Charles Gascon and Michael A. Varley

2014

A Look at Japan's slowdown and its turnaround plan

Juan Sanchez and Emircan Yurdagul

The Fed's bloated balance sheet: how we got here and why it's familiar

Lowell Ricketts and Christopher Waller

Job searching: some methods yield better results than others

James D. Eubanks and David Wiczer

Some Perspectives on the Notorious Summer of 2008

James Bullard

Around the World, Gender Gaps Ebb and Flow

Silvio Contessi and Li Li

Understanding the Motives and Constraints That Lead People to Risky Occupations

Amanda Michaud and David Wiczer

Not everyone who joins the ranks of the employed was \\"unemployed\\"

Maria Canon, Marianna Kudlyak and Marisa Reed

A Spring-loaded economy?

Kevin Kliesen

Engines of growth vary in four largest cities

Maria A. Arias and Charles Gascon

Long-resilient Little Rock faces uncertain pace of recovery

Charles Gascon and Peter McCrory

The ups and downs of inflation and the role of Fed credibility

Diana A. Cooke and William Gavin

The liquidity trap: an alternative explanation for today's low inflation

Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen

Youth unemployment notably high in southern Europe

James D. Eubanks and David Wiczer

The rise and fall of labor force participation in the U.S

James Bullard

Paying down credit card debt: a breakdown by income and age

Juan Sanchez

Debt crisis in Europe is easing, but stability remains a long way off

Silvio Contessi and Li Li

Weather throws a cold blanket on the U.S. economy

Kevin Kliesen

Measured economic mobility in the district is below the U.S. average

Alejandro Badel and Julia S. Maues

After stalling, recovery resumes in St. Louis

Diana A. Cooke and Charles Gascon

Business opportunities and challenges for the U.S. in Latin America

Alexander Monge-Naranjo

The federal budget: how the U.S. got here, and where it is headed

Fernando Martin

Is involuntary part-time employment different after the great recession?

Maria Canon, Marianna Kudlyak and Marisa Reed

Tapering and other key topics in U.S. monetary policy

James Bullard

Three faces of low inflation: U.S., Japan and the Euro area

Silvio Contessi and Li Li

Recovery seems to have finally taken root

Kevin Kliesen

Why is economic mobility in Memphis among the lowest in the nation?

Alejandro Badel and Julia S. Maues

As Owensboro, Ky., wraps up wave of development, hiring slows down

Maria A. Arias and Charles Gascon

Rockets and Feathers: Why Don't Gasoline Prices Always Move in Sync with Oil Prices?

Michael Owyang and E. Katarina Vermann

Food Prices and Inflation in China and the U.S. Are Following Similar Paths

Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen

Looking at Recessions through a Different Lens

David Wiczer

A Mismatch: Close to Macroeconomic Goals, Far from Normal Monetary Policy

James Bullard

Credit to Noncorporate Businesses Remains Tight

Juan Sanchez

Terrorism: A Threat to Foreign Direct Investment

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Javed Younas

Optimism Prevails as GDP Snaps Back from Q1 Decline

Kevin Kliesen

Buying Power of Minimum Wage Varies across and within States

Charles Gascon

Manufacturing Shares the Stage with Service Sectors in Jackson, Tenn

James D. Eubanks and Charles Gascon