Perfecting housing finance

Housing - Finance

Bankers acceptances and unconventional monetary policy: FAQs

Acceptances ; Credit

Monetary base

This brief essay is a working draft of an article in preparation for the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., examining the role of the monetary base in monetary economics and monetary policymaking. Comments are welcome.Money supply ; Monetary policy

Is more QE in sight?

Most analysts have concluded that the LSAP successfully reduced long-term market interest rates. How, exactly, do LSAP-style programs succeed?Monetary policy ; Financial crises

How well do wages follow productivity growth?

Labor productivity ; Wages

Replicability, real-time data, and the science of economic research: FRED, ALFRED, and VDC

This article discusses the linkages between two recent themes in economic research: "real time" data and replication. These two themes share many of the same ideas, specifically, that scientific research itself has a time dimension. In research using real-time data, this time dimension is the date on which particular observations, or pieces of data, became available. In work with replication, it is the date on which a study (and its results) became available to other researchers and/or was published. Recognition of both dimensions of scientific research is important. A project at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to place large amounts of historical data on the Internet holds promise to unify these two themes.Research ; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The financial services sector: boom and recession

The fluctuations in home construction (and prices) have been widely discussed, but swings in the financial services sector also are important elements of economic activity within U.S. states.Financial services industry

Mutual funds and monetary aggregates - introduction

Money supply ; Mutual funds

Monetary policy and productivity

Monetary policy ; Productivity

TIPS for social security?

Social security