Economic Commentary (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Economic Commentaries provide deeper analysis of relevant economic issues.
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- The Evolving Global Monetary Order, January 1, 2000
- Waiting for Policy Rules, January 15, 2000
- Why Intervention Rarely Works, February 1, 2000
- The Century of Markets, February 15, 2000
- Evolution in Banking Supervision, March 1, 2000
- Do Imports Hinder or Help Economic Growth?, March 15, 2000
- Fiscal Policy and Fickle Fortunes : What's Luck Got to Do With It?, April 1, 2000
- Raising the Deposit-Insurance Limit : A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come?, April 15, 2000
- Investor Expectations and Fundamentals : Disappointment Ahead?, May 1, 2000
- Economic Policy for Our Era : The Ohio Experience, May 15, 2000
- Who Is That Guy on the $10 Bill?, June 2000
- Are We Saving Enough?, July 2000
- Price Stability : Is a Tough Central Bank Enough?, August 1, 2000
- How to Keep Growing "New Economies", August 15, 2000
- Foreign Economic Growth and the Dollar, September 1, 2000
- Understanding the Wash Cycle, September 15, 2000
- The Baby Boomers' Mega-Inheritance—Myth or Reality?, October 1, 2000
- Two Deposit Insurance Funds Are Not Necessarily Better than One, October 15, 2000
- The Performance and Profitability of CRA-Related Lending, November 2000
- Money Demand and Inflation in Peru, 1979–91, December 2000
- Riding the S-Curve Thriving in a Technological Revolution, January 1, 2001
- A Retrospective On The Stock Market in 2000, January 15, 2001
- Risk Management and Financial Crisis, February 1, 2001
- Perils of Price Deflations : An Analysis of the Great Depression, February 15, 2001
- Life-Cycle Income and Consumption Variability, March 1, 2001
- Beyond Zero : Transparency in the Bank of Japan's Monetary Policy, March 15, 2001
- Why Is the Dividend Yield So Low?, April 1, 2001
- Fiscal Policy in an Era of Surpluses, April 15, 2001
- Monetary Policy with Humility, May 1, 2001
- On the Cost of Inflation, May 15, 2001
- Effective Supervision and the Evolving Financial Services Industry, June 2001
- Money, Manufacturing, and the Strong Dollar, July 2001
- From Market Failure to Market-Based Solution Policy Lessons from Clean Air Legislation, August 1, 2001
- Does Social Security Worsen Inequality?, August 15, 2001
- Productivity Gains : How Permanent?, September 1, 2001
- Who Benefits from Increasing the Federal Deposit Insurance Limit?, September 15, 2001
- How Well Does the Federal Funds Futures Rate Predict the Future Federal Funds Rate?, October 1, 2001
- The Demographics of Inflation Opinion Surveys, October 15, 2001
- The Curiously Different Inflation Perspectives of Men and Women, November 2001
- Swaps and the Swaps Yield Curve, December 2001
- Why Haven't Long-Term Interest Rates Fallen?, January 1, 2002
- Infrastructure and the Wealth of Nations, January 15, 2002
- Legal Systems and Bank Development, February 1, 2002
- Monetary Policy Rules and Stability : Inflation Targeting versus Price-Level Targeting, February 15, 2002
- Electronic Money and the Future of Central Banks, March 1, 2002
- Consumer Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, March 15, 2002
- Why the Optimism?, April 1, 2002
- A Beautiful Theory, April 15, 2002
- Why Is Stable Money Such a Big Deal?, May 1, 2002
- Is It More Expensive, or Does It Just Cost More Money?, May 15, 2002
- Fear and Loathing of Central Banks in America, June 2002
- Commercial Banks' Borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank, July 2002
- Speaking of Accounting Scandals, August 01, 2002
- Stock Prices and Output Growth : An Examination of the Credit Channel, August 15, 2002
- Free Trade and Tariffs - An Uneasy Mix, September 01, 2002
- What You Should Know about Identity Theft, September 15, 2002
- Options and the Future : What Do Markets Think?, October 01, 2002
- Dollarization : What's In It for US?, October 15, 2002
- Three Myths about Central Banks, November 2002
- Answering the Challenges of Creating Economic Opportunity, December 2002
- Not as Easy as It Looks: Regulating Effective Corporate Governance, January 1, 2003
- Does School Quality Affect Juvenile Crime?, January 15, 2003
- Measures of Corporate Earnings: What Number Is Best?, February 1, 2003
- Open and Operating: Providing Liquidity to Avoid a Crisis, February 15, 2003
- Another Jobless Recovery?, March 1, 2003
- Why Are TIIS Yields So High? The Case of the Missing Inflation-Risk Premium, March 15, 2003
- Do Energy Price Spikes Cause Inflation?, April 1, 2003
- Iowa Electronic Markets, April 15, 2003
- Information and Prices, May 1, 2003
- The New Discount Window, May 15, 2003
- The Evolving Role of the Federal Home Loan Banks in Mortgage Markets, June 2003
- The Taylor Rule: A Guidepost for Monetary Policy?, July 2003
- The Economic Rise of China: Threat or Opportunity?, August 1, 2003
- Securitization, August 15, 2003
- An Option for Anticipating Fed Action, September 1, 2003
- What Is the Right Inflation Rate?, September 15, 2003
- Foreign Exchange and the Liquidity Trap, October 1, 2003
- Bubble, Toil, and Trouble, October 15, 2003
- Expensing Stock Options, November 2003
- The Nature of Economic Change, December 2003
- Arbitrage: The Key to Pricing Options, January 1, 2004
- The Trime, January 15, 2004
- Island Money, February 1, 2004
- On the Rotation of the Earth, Drunken Sailors, and Exchange Rate Policy, February 15, 2004
- Mutual Funds, Fee Transparency, and Competition, March 1, 2004
- A National Voice, a Regional View, March 15, 2004
- Dividends, April 1, 2004
- Wage and Employer Changes Over the Life Cycle, April 15, 2004
- A Perspective on Monetary Policy, May 1, 2004
- Employment Surveys Are Telling the Same (Sad) Story, May 15, 2004
- Interest Rates, Yield Curves, and the Monetary Regime, June 2004
- Why Are We Losing Manufacturing Jobs?, July 2004
- When Is a Rate Hike Not Tighter Policy?, August 1, 2004
- Per Capita Income Growth and Disparity in the United States, 1929--2003, August 15, 2004
- When Is Checkout Time?, September 1, 2004
- Are SBA Loan Guarantees Desirable?, September 15, 2004
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the U.S. Current Account Problem, October 1, 2004
- The Fate of One-Dollar Coins in the U.S., October 15, 2004
- Expected Inflation and TIPS, November 2004
- Oil Prices: Backward to the Future?, December 2004
- Losing Its Minds? Evaluating "Brain Drain" in Ohio, January 1, 2005
- This Is Bangalore Calling: Hang Up or Speed Dial? What Technology-Enabled International Trade in Services Means for the U.S. Economy and Workforce, January 15, 2005
- A Perspective on Monetary Policy, February 1, 2005
- Should Ohio Invest in Universal Preschooling?, February 15, 2005
- Rethinking the Welfare Cost of Inflation, March 1, 2005
- Too Much Risk?, March 15, 2005
- The Growing Significance of Purchasing Power Parity, April 1, 2005
- Expectations, Communications, and Monetary Policy, April 15, 2005
- The Power of Price Stability, May 1, 2005
- Why Policymakers Might Care about Stock Market Bubbles, May 15, 2005
- Labor Productivity Growth across States, June 2005
- Oil Prices, Monetary Policy, and the Macroeconomy, July 2005
- Accounting for the Jobless Recoveries, August 1, 2005
- The Chinese Renminbi: What's Real, What's Not, August 15, 2005
- Nondeliverable Forwards: Can We Tell Where the Renminbi Is Headed?, September 1, 2005
- Umbrella Supervision, September 15, 2005
- The Tale of Gresham's Law, October 1, 2005
- The Role of Relationships in Small-Business Lending, October 15, 2005
- Considerable Period of Time: The Case of Signaling Future Policy, November 2005
- Have International Developments Lowered the Neutral Rate?, December 2005
- Are We Engineering Ourselves out of Manufacturing Jobs?, January 1, 2006
- Optimal Deposit Contracts: Do-It-Yourself Bank-Run Prevention for Banks, January 15, 2006
- Cleveland (on the) Rocks, February 1, 2006
- Economic Forecasts and Monetary Policy, February 15, 2006
- Vouchers and the Cleveland Scholarship Program: Little Progress So Far, March 1, 2006
- Choice, Charters, and Public School Competition, March 15, 2006
- Employment Growth, Job Creation, and Job Destruction in Ohio, April 1, 2006
- Does the Yield Curve Signal Recession?, April 15, 2006
- Monetary Policy in an Interdependent World, May 1, 2006
- Inflation, Banking, and Economic Growth, May 15, 2006
- FOMC Communications and the Predictability of Near-Term Policy Decisions, June 2006
- Economic Conditions and Monetary Policy, July 2006
- Central Bank Credibility, August 1, 2006
- Paths to Prosperity: Knowledge is Key for Fourth District States, August 15, 2006
- Central Bank Independence: The Key to Price Stability?, September 1, 2006
- Inflation, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy, September 15, 2006
- Industrial Loan Companies, October 1, 2006
- Understanding Unemployment, October 15, 2006
- The Anatomy of an Oil Price Shock, November 2006
- Milton Friedman, Teacher, 1912--2006, December 2006
- Private Money in our Past, Present, and Future, January 1, 2007
- Home Price Derivatives, January 15, 2007
- Human Capital and the Challenge of Persistent Poverty in Appalachia, February 1, 2007
- A Closer Look at Cleveland's Latest Poverty Ranking, February 15, 2007
- Credit Spreads and Subordinated Debt, March 1, 2007
- Mirror, Mirror, Who's the Best Forecaster of Them All?, March 15, 2007
- U.S. Ethnic Scientists and Entrepreneurs, April 1, 2007
- How Much U.S. Technological Innovation Begins in Universities?, April 15, 2007
- The Minimum Wage and the Labor Market, May 1, 2007
- Global Risks to U.S. Monetary Policy, May 15, 2007
- Price Stability: Issues and Challenges, June 2007
- What's Really Happening in Housing Markets?, July 2007
- The Growth of Cities in the Fourth District, August 1, 2007
- Peak Oil, August 15, 2007
- Prepayment Penalties on Subprime Mortgages, September 1, 2007
- Regional Variation in Job Creation and Destruction, September 15, 2007
- Are Consumers Cashing Out?, October 1, 2007
- Regional Productivity Growth and Plant-Level Dynamics, October 15, 2007
- Coordination Failures in the Labor Market, November 2007
- A Brief History of Central Banks, December 2007
- Explaining Apparent Changes in the Phillips Curve: Trend Inflation Isn't Constant, January 2008
- Explaining Apparent Changes in the Phillips Curve: The Great Moderation and Monetary Policy, February 2008
- The Great Moderation: Good Luck, Good Policy, or Less Oil Dependence?, March 2008
- Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid to Use, April 2008
- Trouble Ahead for Student Loans?, May 2008
- Rising Relative Prices or Inflation: Why Knowing the Difference Matters, June 2008
- Covered Bonds: A New Way to Fund Residential Mortgages, July 2008
- A New Role for the Exchange Stabilization Fund, August 2008
- Adjustable-Rate Mortgages and the Libor Surprise, January 2009
- Effective Practices in Crisis Resolution and the Case of Sweden, February 2009
- Replacing the Dollar with Special Drawing Rights--Will It Work This Time?, March 2009
- Foreclosure Metrics, April 2009
- Ten Myths about Subprime Mortgages, May 2009
- The Check Is Dead! Long Live the Check! A Check 21 Update, June 2009
- Credit Default Swaps and Their Market Function, July 2009
- A New Approach to Gauging Inflation Expectations, August 2009
- Why Didn't Canada's Housing Market Go Bust?, September 2009
- Conducting Monetary Policy when Interest Rates Are Near Zero, October 2009
- 2010s
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