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17-2: Measuring consumer expenditures with payment diaries

Scott Schuh

17-1: Population aging, labor demand, and the structure of wages

Michael Papadopoulos, Margarita Patria and Robert Triest

16-31: Does changing employers’ access to criminal histories affect ex-offenders’ recidivism?: evidence from the 2010–2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform

Osborne Jackson and Bo Zhao

16-30: The effect of changing employers’ access to criminal histories on ex-offenders’ labor market outcomes: evidence from the 2010–2012 Massachusetts CORI Reform

Osborne Jackson and Bo Zhao

16-29: Who counts as employed?: informal work, employment status, and labor market slack

Anat Bracha and Mary Burke

16-28: The time-varying price of financial intermediation in the mortgage market

Andreas Fuster, Stephanie Lo and Paul Willen

16-27: Show me the money: the monetary policy risk premium

Ali Ozdagli and Mihail Velikov

16-26: Heterogeneous exporters: quantitative differences and qualitative similarities

Camila Casas, Federico Diez and Alejandra Gonzalez-Ramirez

16-25: Firms in international trade

Federico Diez, Jesse Mora and Alan Spearot

16-24: Did life insurers benefit from TARP or regulatory forbearance during the financial crisis of 2008–2009?

Michelle Barnes

16-23: Investment decisions and negative interest rates

Anat Bracha

16-22: Lending to unhealthy firms in Japan during the lost decade: distinguishing between technical and financial health

Suparna Chakraborty and Joe Peek

16-20: The influence of gender and income on the household division of financial responsibility

Marcin Hitczenko

16-19: Are there social spillovers in consumers’ security assessments of payment instruments?

Charles Kahn, José Liñares-Zegarra and Joanna Stavins

16-18: Monetary policy and regional house-price appreciation

Daniel Cooper, Maria Luengo-Prado and Giovanni Olivei

16-17: Household formation over time: evidence from two cohorts of young adults

Daniel Cooper and Maria Luengo-Prado

16-16: Business complexity and risk management: evidence from operational risk events in U. S. bank holding companies

Anna Chernobai, Ali Ozdagli and Jianlin Wang

16-15: You can be too thin (but not too tall): social desirability bias in self-reports of weight and height

Mary Burke and Katherine Carman

16-14: The effects of government spending on real exchange rates: evidence from military spending panel data

Wataru Miyamoto, Thuy Lan Nguyen and Viacheslav Sheremirov

16-13: The dynamic factor network model with an application to global credit risk

Falk Bräuning and Siem Jan Koopman

16-12: Cross-sectional patterns of mortgage debt during the housing boom: evidence and implications

Christopher Foote, Lara Loewenstein and Paul Willen

16-11: Does Fed policy reveal a ternary mandate?

Joe Peek, Eric Rosengren and Geoffrey Tootell

16-10: “No more credit score”: employer credit check bans and signal substitution

Robert Clifford and Daniel Shoag

16-9: Downskilling: changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle

Joshua Ballance, Alicia Modestino and Daniel Shoag

16-8: Levels and trends in the income mobility of U.S. families, 1977−2012

Katharine Bradbury

16-7: Relationship lending in the interbank market and the price of liquidity

Falk Bräuning and Falko Fecht

16-6: The credit card debt puzzle: the role of preferences, credit risk, and financial literacy

Olga Gorbachev and Maria Luengo-Prado

16-5: The effect of demographics on payment behavior: panel data with sample selection

Joanna Stavins

16-4: Optimal time-consistent government debt maturity

Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes and Pierre Yared

16-3: A dynamic network model of the unsecured interbank lending market

Francisco Blasques, Falk Bräuning and Iman Lelyveld

16-2: What determines the level of local business property taxes?

David Merriman

16-1: Moving to a new job: the role of home equity, debt, and access to credit

Yuliya Demyanyk, Dmytro Hryshko, Maria Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen

15-18: Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?

Osborne Jackson

15-17: Consumer revolving credit and debt over the life cycle and business cycle

Scott Fulford and Scott Schuh

15-16: Exchange rates and monetary policy

Vania Stavrakeva and Jenny Tang

15-15: The final countdown: the effect of monetary policy during \"Wait-for-It\" and reversal periods

Ali Ozdagli

15-14: From urban core to wealthy towns: nonschool fiscal disparities across Connecticut municipalities

Bo Zhao

15-13: Can't pay or won't pay?: unemployment, negative equity, and strategic default

Kristopher Gerardi, Kyle Herkenhoff, Lee Ohanian and Paul Willen

15-12: The rise and fall of consumption in the '00s

Yuliya Demyanyk, Dmytro Hryshko, Maria Luengo-Prado and Bent Sorensen

15-11: Do increases in subsidized housing reduce the incidence of homelessness?: evidence from the low-income housing tax credit

Osborne Jackson and Laura Kawano

15-10: Price dispersion and inflation: new facts and theoretical implications

Viacheslav Sheremirov

15-9: Output response to government spending: evidence from new international military spending data

Viacheslav Sheremirov and Sandra Spirovska

15-8: Uncertainty and the signaling channel of monetary policy

Jenny Tang

15-7: The distributional effects of contractual norms: the case of cropshare agreements

Mary Burke

15-6: Within-school spillover effects of foreclosures and student mobility on student academic performance

Katharine Bradbury, Mary Burke and Robert Triest

15-5: Expectations as a source of macroeconomic persistence: an exploration of firms' and households' expectation formation

Jeffrey Fuhrer

15-4: The Failure of supervisory stress testing: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and OFHEO

W Frame, Kristopher Gerardi and Paul Willen

15-3: Designing a simple loss function for the Fed: does the dual mandate make sense?

Davide Debortoli, Jinill Kim, Jesper Lindé and Ricardo Nunes

15-2: Nudging credit scores in the field: the effect of text reminders on creditworthiness in the United States

Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier

15-1: Price setting in online markets: does IT click?

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Viacheslav Sheremirov and Oleksandr Talavera