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

Omar Barbiero and Dhiren Patki

97187: Credit Card Spending and Borrowing since the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joanna Stavins

97115: Firms’ Cash Holdings and Monetary Policy Transmission

Falk Bräuning, José Fillat and Gustavo Joaquim

96859: What Is Driving Inflation—Besides the Usual Culprits?

Christopher Cotton and Vaishali Garga

96665: The Distribution of Sectoral Price Changes and Recent Inflation Developments

Christopher Cotton, Vaishali Garga, Giovanni Olivei and Viacheslav Sheremirov

96664: Interest Expenses, Coverage Ratio, and Firm Distress

Falk Bräuning, Gustavo Joaquim and Hillary Stein

96216: The Historical Effects of Banking Distress on Economic Activity

Falk Bräuning and Viacheslav Sheremirov

95748: The Limited Role of Intergenerational Transfers for Understanding Racial Wealth Disparities

John Edward Sabelhaus and Jeffrey Thompson

95664: Forecasting CPI Shelter under Falling Market-Rent Growth

Christopher Cotton and John O'Shea

95265: Sectoral Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Catherine Cox and Osborne Jackson

94983: Are the Demand and Supply Channels of Inflation Persistent? Evidence from a Novel Decomposition of PCE Inflation

Viacheslav Sheremirov

94444: Lessons Learned from Mortgage Borrower Policies and Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

94265: Cost-Price Relationships in a Concentrated Economy

Falk Bräuning, Jose Fillat and Gustavo Joaquim

93991: Did the Medicaid Expansion Crowd Out Other Payment Sources for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder? Evidence from Rhode Island

Mary Burke and Riley Sullivan

93543: Debt, Deficits, and Interest Rates

Christopher Cotton

93541: Allocation and Employment Effect of the Paycheck Protection Program

Gustavo Joaquim

93533: Population Aging and the US Labor Force Participation Rate

Daniel Cooper, Christopher Foote, Maria Luengo-Prado and Giovanni Olivei

93430: Consumption Spending during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Christopher Cotton, Vaishali Garga and Justin Rohan

93422: Measuring the US Employment Situation Using Online Panels: The Yale Labor Survey

Christopher Foote, Tyler Hounshell, William Nordhaus, Douglas Rivers and Pamela Torola

93068: The Main Street Lending Program

David Arseneau, Jose Fillat, Molly Mahar, Donald Morgan and Skander Van den Heuvel

93055: How Did the MSLP Borrowers Fare Before and During COVID-19?

Joshua Ballance, Melanie Qing and J. Christina Wang

92970: A New Look at Racial Disparities Using a More Comprehensive Wealth Measure

Alice Henriques Volz and Jeffrey Thompson

92827: The Drivers of Inflation Dynamics during the Pandemic: (Early) Evidence from Disaggregated Consumption Data

Viacheslav Sheremirov

92793: Racial Differences in Mortgage Refinancing, Distress, and Housing Wealth Accumulation during COVID-19

Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

92116: A Helping Hand to Main Street Where and When It Was Needed

Falk Bräuning, Jose Fillat, Frankie Lin and J. Christina Wang

90899: COVID-19 and the Labor Market Outcomes for Prime-Aged Women

Maria Luengo-Prado

90326: Uptake of the Main Street Lending Program

Falk Bräuning and Teodora Paligorova

90307: The Medicaid Expansion and the Uptake of Medication-assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Evidence from the Rhode Island All-payer Claims Database, 2012–2018

Mary Burke and Riley Sullivan

89267: Evaluating the Benefits of a Streamlined Refinance Program

Kristopher Gerardi, Lara Loewenstein and Paul Willen

89224: The Roles of Mobility and Masks in the Spread of COVID-19

Daniel Cooper, Vaishali Garga, Maria Luengo-Prado and Jenny Tang

88967: Corporate Debt Maturity and Monetary Policy

Falk Bräuning, Jose Fillat and J. Christina Wang

88356: Forecasting the New England States’ Tax Revenues in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bo Zhao

88244: An Approach to Predicting Regional Labor Market Effects of Economic Shocks: The COVID-19 Pandemic in New England

Osborne Jackson

87795: The Great Leverage 2.0? A Tale of Different Indicators of Corporate Leverage

Falk Bräuning and J. Christina Wang

87522: Predicting Recessions Using the Yield Curve: The Role of the Stance of Monetary Policy

Daniel Cooper, Jeffrey Fuhrer and Giovanni Olivei