Recent Research
When Don’t Developing Countries Benefit from Capital Account Liberalization? The Role of Labor Market Institutions
By Qingyuan Du, Jun Nie and Shang-Jin WeiNovember 26, 2019 | Research Working Paper
Developing countries may fail to benefit from capital account liberalization if their labor markets are rigid.
Risk-shifting, Regulation and Government Assistance
By Padma SharmaNovember 26, 2019 | Research Working Paper
The elimination of bailouts during the savings and loan crisis in 1989 led thrift institutions to increase their composition of safe assets.
Assessing Macroeconomic Tail Risks in a Data-Rich Environment
By Thomas R. Cook and Taeyoung DohNovember 26, 2019 | Research Working Paper
A large set of economic and financial indicators suggests a negligible risk of unexpectedly low real GDP growth but a modest risk of unexpectedly low inflation.
Unconventional Monetary Policy, (A)Synchronicity and the Yield Curve
By Karlye Dilts StedmanNovember 19, 2019 | Research Working Paper
Spillovers from unconventional monetary policy abroad increase when the return to normalized policy is asynchronous.
Urban Growth Shadows
By David Cuberes, Klaus Desmet and Jordan RappaportNovember 18, 2019 | Research Working Paper
Although locations near metropolitan areas have experienced faster population growth since 1920, this growth has diminished since 2000, suggesting the largest metropolitan areas will grow more slowly over coming decades.
Economic Review
Payment Card Fraud Rates in the United States Relative to Other Countries since Migrating to Chip Cards
By Fumiko HayashiNovember 27, 2019 | Economic Review
Even after migrating to chip card technology, the United States has a significantly higher in-person fraud rate than other countries.
The Uneven Recovery in Prime-Age Labor Force Participation
By Didem Tuzemen and Thao TranOctober 08, 2019 | Economic Review
Prime-age individuals without a college degree had larger declines in their labor force participation during and after the recession, due in part to the disappearance of routine jobs.
Tracking U.S. GDP in Real Time
By Taeyoung Doh and Jaeheung BaeAugust 14, 2019 | Economic Review
A new model for tracking GDP in real time allows policymakers to assess the current state of the economy.
Did Local Factors Contribute to the Decline in Bank Branches?
By Rajdeep Sengupta and Jacob DiceJuly 18, 2019 | Economic Review
The number of bank branches has declined since the financial crisis, driven partly by changes in local market and competitive factors.
Implementation Delays in Pension Retrenchment Reforms
By Huixin Bi, Kevin Hunt and Susan ZubairyJuly 02, 2019 | Economic Review
On average, pension retrenchment reforms are phased in over a decade, but age-related forms can take much longer to implement.
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