Public Policy Briefs
Public Policy Briefs present briefing materials prepared by Boston Fed research staff on topics of current interest concerning the economy.
Latest Policy Briefs from the Research Department
| No. 12-2 | “U.S. Household Deleveraging: What Do the Aggregate and Household-Level Data Tell Us?” by Daniel Cooper |
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| No. 12-1 | “Long-Term Inequality and Mobility” by Katharine Bradbury |
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| No. 11-4 | “Inflation Expectations and the Evolution of U.S. Inflation” by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer |
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| No. 11-3 | “Potential Effects of an Increase in Debit Card Fees” by Joanna Stavins (Revised in April 2012) |
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| No. 11-2 | “The Estimated Macroeconomic Effects of the Federal Reserve's Large-Scale Treasury Purchase Program” by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Giovanni P. Olivei |
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| No. 11-1 | “Do Commodity Price Spikes Cause Long-Term Inflation?” |
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| No. 10-3 | “Evidence of a Credit Crunch? Results from the 2010 Survey of First District Community Banks” by Jihye Jeon, Judit Montoriol-Garriga, Robert K. Triest, and J. Christina Wang |
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| No. 10-2 | “The Role of Expectations and Output in the Inflation Process: An Empirical Assessment” by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer and Giovanni P. Olivei |
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| No. 10-1 | “State Government Budgets and the Recovery Act” by Katharine Bradbury |
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| No. 09-1 | “A Proposal to Help Distressed Homeowners: A Government Payment-Sharing Plan” by Chris Foote, Jeff Fuhrer, Eileen Mauskopf, and Paul Willen |
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| No. 08-1 | “Inflation Targeting—Central Bank Practice Overseas” by Jane Sneddon Little and Teresa Foy Romano |
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| No. 07-2 | “A Principal Components Approach to Estimating Labor Market Pressure and Its Implications for Inflation” by Michelle Barnes, Ryan Chahrour, Giovanni Olivei, and Gaoyan Tang |
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| No. 07-1 | “Massachusetts Employment Growth 1996–2006: Effects of Industry Performance and Industry Composition” by Katharine Bradbury and Yolanda K. Kodrzycki |
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| No. 06-2 | “Measurement of Unemployment” by Katharine Bradbury |
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| No. 06-1 | “Using State and Metropolitan Area House Price Cycles to Interpret the U.S. Housing Market” by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Nelson Gerew |
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| No. 05-2 | “Additional Slack in the Economy:
The Poor Recovery in Labor Force Participation
During This Business Cycle” by Katharine Bradbury |
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| No. 05-1 | “Regional Differences in the Impact
of Energy Price Increases” by Katharine Bradbury |
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| No. 04-2 | “The Federal Fiscal Outlook” | |
| No. 04-1 | “Understanding the “Job-Loss Recovery” |
For questions or feedback about the Public Policy Briefs, please contact:
Suzanne Lorant
Economics Editor
suzanne.lorant@bos.frb.org
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In addition to Public Policy Briefs, you may be interested in the Boston Fed's Public Policy Discussion Papers Series, which presents new policy research, research surveys, or research bearing on policy issues. The papers are written for policymakers, informed business people, and academics by economists at the Boston Fed, and many of them present research intended for professional journals.
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