Current Policy Perspectives

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2019_002: Access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder: is Rhode Island different, and why?

Mary Burke

2019_001: Stress testing effects on portfolio similarities among large US Banks

Falk Bräuning and Jose Fillat

2018_003: Technology, the nature of information, and fintech marketplace lending

J. Christina Wang

2018_002: Wage inflation and informal work

Anat Bracha and Mary Burke

2018_001: The liquidity effect of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet reduction on short-term interest rates

Falk Bräuning

2017_006: The equilibrium real policy rate through the lens of standard growth models

Daniel Sichel and J. Christina Wang

2017_005: Sectoral inflation and the Phillips curve: what has changed since the Great Recession?

Maria Luengo-Prado, Nikhil Rao and Viacheslav Sheremirov

2017_004: Faster payments: market structure and policy considerations

Garth Baughman, Fumiko Hayashi, Mark D. Manuszak, Aaron Rosenbaum, Joanna Stavins and Kylie Stewart

2017_003: Uncovering covered interest parity: the role of bank regulation and monetary policy

Falk Bräuning and Kovid Puria

2017_002: Relative pay, productivity, and labor supply

Anat Bracha

2017_001: Community Education Circles in the Lawrence Public Schools: evaluation design and baseline survey data

Katharine Bradbury, John C. Brown, Mary Burke, Erin Graves and Robert Triest

2016_002: Labor force participation in New England vs. the United States, 2007–2015: why was the regional decline more moderate?

Mary Burke

2016_001: Why have revenue-strapped New England school districts been slow to turn to alternative funding sources?

Thomas Downes

2015_010: Changing patterns in informal work participation in the United States 2013–2015

Anat Bracha, Mary Burke and Arman Khachiyan

2015_009: The effects of a stronger dollar on U.S. prices

Federico Diez and Gita Gopinath

2015_008: A post-mortem of the life insurance industry's bid for capital during the financial crisis

Michelle Barnes, James Bohn and Cynthia Martin

2015_007: The Rhode Island labor market in recovery: where is the skills gap?

Mary Burke

2015_006: Why has the cyclicality of productivity changed?: what does it mean?

John Fernald and J. Christina Wang

2015_005: Credit supply disruptions: from credit crunches to financial crisis

Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren

2015_004: Household formation over time: evidence from two cohorts of young adults

Daniel H. Cooper and Maria Luengo-Prado

2015_003: Global standards for liquidity regulation

Eva Liebmann and Joe Peek

2015_002: Did abnormal weather affect U.S. employment growth in early 2015?

Christopher Foote

2015_001: How do speed and security influence consumers' payment behavior?

Scott Schuh and Joanna Stavins

2014_013: Informal work in the United States: evidence from survey responses

Anat Bracha and Mary Burke

2014_012: Let's talk about it: what policy tools should the Fed \\"normally\\" use?

Michelle Barnes

2014_011: SNAP: should we be worried about a sudden, sharp rise from low, long-term rates?

Ali Ozdagli

2014_010: Productivity in the slow lane?: the role of information and communications technology

Alison Pearson and J. Christina Wang

2014_009: Rhode Island in the Great Recession: factors contributing to its sharp downturn and slow recovery

Mary Burke

2014_008: The Great Recession, entrepreneurship, and productivity performance

Federico Diez

2014_007: Student loan debt and economic outcomes

Daniel H. Cooper and J. Christina Wang

2014_006: The emerging market economies in times of taper-talk and actual tapering

Federico Diez

2014_005: Costs and benefits of building faster payment systems: the U.K. experience and implications for the United States

Claire Greene, Marc Rysman, Scott Schuh and Oz Shy

2014_004: Bitcoin as money?

Stephanie Lo and J. Christina Wang

2014_003: The competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing

Federico Diez and Gita Gopinath

2014_002: Labor market exit and re-entry: is the United States poised for a rebound in the labor force participation rate?

Daniel H. Cooper and Maria Luengo-Prado

2014_001: Tight credit conditions continue to constrain the housing recovery

Jordan Rappaport and Paul Willen

99774: Are Recently Issued Credit Card Accounts More Risky?

Joanna Stavins

99736: Parsing Out the Sources of Inflation

Danilo Leiva-Leon, Viacheslav Sheremirov, Jenny Tang and Egon Zakrajšek

99642: Evidence That Relaxing Dealers’ Risk Constraints Can Make the Treasury Market More Liquid

Falk Bräuning and Hillary Stein

99551: How Firms’ Perceptions of Geopolitical Risk Affect Investment

Leslie Sheng Shen

99508: The Impact of Tariffs on Inflation

Omar Barbiero and Hillary Stein

99440: How the Student Loan Payment Pause Affected Borrowers’ Credit Access and Credit Use

Daniel Cooper and Maddie Haddix

99142: Manufacturing Gains from Green Energy and Semiconductor Spending since the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Acts

Omar Barbiero

99072: The Impact of Global Shipping Cost Surges on US Import Price Inflation

Leslie Sheng Shen and Hillary Stein

98463: Productivity Improvements and Markup Normalization Can Support Further Wage Gains without Inflationary Pressures

Vaishali Garga, Giovanni Olivei and J. Christina Wang

98435: A Faster Convergence of Shelter Prices and Market Rent: Implications for Inflation

Christopher Cotton

98288: Buy Now, Pay Later: Who Uses It and Why

Joanna Stavins

97983: Addressing Housing Shortages through Tax Abatement

Paul Willen

97617: Is Post-pandemic Wage Growth Fueling Inflation?

Philippe Andrade, Falk Bräuning, Jose Fillat and Gustavo Joaquim

97263: Have US Households Depleted All the Excess Savings They Accumulated during the Pandemic?

Omar Barbiero and Dhiren Patki