Jaison R. Abel, Jason Bram, and Richard Deitz
The New York Fed’s January Business Leaders Survey indicates that the regional economy kicked off the New Year on a positive note.
Amy Farber
Did’ya ever notice how silly those Historical Echoes posts can get?
Ezechiel Copic, Luis Gonzalez, Caitlin Gorback, Blake Gwinn, and Ernst Schaumburg Disclaimer
Ezechiel Copic, Luis Gonzalez, Caitlin Gorback, Blake Gwinn, and Ernst Schaumburg On January 29, 2014, the U.S. Treasury held its first auction of a two-year floating-rate note (FRN), which pays a fixed spread over the floating thirteen-week bill rate rather than a fixed coupon. In this post, we investigate the aftermath of the January auction […]
Nicola Cetorelli
Nicola Cetorelli A successful hybrid is an offspring of two species that, in a new environment, is better suited for survival than its own parents. Evolution in the financial “ecosystem” seems to have driven the emergence of hybrid intermediaries.
Amy Farber
Metaphors, similes, analogies – we know they’re not the same thing, but they can do pretty much the same job when illustrating what monetary policy is like (or what anything is like).
Matthew Ploenzke, Robert Rich, and Joseph Tracy
Uncertainty is of considerable interest for understanding the behavior of individuals as well as the movements in key macroeconomic and financial variables.
David O. Lucca, Amit Seru, and Francesco Trebbi
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, job transitions of personnel in banking supervision and regulation between the public and private sectors—often labeled the revolving door—have come under intense scrutiny and have been blamed by certain economists (Johnson and Kwak), legal scholars (John Coffee in the Financial Times), and policymakers (Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, Section 968) for distorting regulators’ actions in favor of banks.
Megan Cohen
On June 24, 1968, thousands of people swarmed assay offices in the United States, anxious to unload their holdings of silver certificates.
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