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Our research staff conducts innovative research on monetary policy, the payments system, and regional and community issues. Our work is shared with policymakers, other researchers and the public.
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Agriculture & Rural Economies
Insights on agricultural and rural economies regionally and nationally. -
Banking & Financial Markets
Issues affecting the banking industry, including supervisory and regulatory concerns, fair lending issues and potential risks to financial institutions. -
Community Research
Economic issues affecting low- and moderate- income communities, including fair and impartial access to credit. -
Monetary Policy & Macroeconomics
Issues of importance to the Federal Reserve, including financial markets, banking, monetary policy and more. -
Payments System Research
Domestic and international payments system developments. -
Regional Research
The Tenth Federal Reserve District's economic geography and developments for national monetary policy deliberations.
Recent Research
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Third Quarter 2012 Economic Review:
"Has Globalization Increased the Synchronicity of International Business Cycles?"
By Travis J. Berge"The Federal Reserve's Reduced Role in Retail Payments: Implications for Efficiency and Risk"
By Richard J. Sullivan"Kansas Banking in the 1930s: The Deposit Insurance Choice and Implications for Public Policy"
By Kenneth Spong and Kristen Regehr
Federal deposit insurance can provide crucial reassurance to banking customers, but may also create moral hazard problems as banks take on greater risk once insured. Evidence from the Kansas banking industry in the 1930s suggests this problem is real. Unfortunately most solutions have both pros and cons."New Person-to-Person Payment Methods: Have Checks Met Their Match?"
By Terri Bradford and William R. Keeton
The last decade has seen a surge in new methods for making person-to-person payments, offering consumers more security and control than paper checks. Some methods may even be faster. However, gaps in service remain. -
Is This Farm Boom Different? A Summary of the 2012 Agricultural Symposium
By Jason Henderson
This issue of the Main Street Economist summarizes the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's 2012 Agricultural Symposium. -
Student Loans: Overview and Issues
By Kelly Edmiston, Lara Brooks, and Steven Shepelwich
Student loans present problems for some borrowers, but student loans do not yet impose a significant burden on society from their fiscal impact. -
The State Space Representation and Estimation of a Time-Varying Parameter VAR with Stochastic...
By Taeyoung Doh and Michael Connolly
Estimating a time-varying parameter VAR model with stochastic volatility using the state space representation suggests that the trend and volatility of the U.S. unemployment rate increased substantially around the 2007-09 recession while the trend and volatility of inflation and the long-term interest rate were relatively stable. -
Discounts and Surcharges: Implications for Consumer Payment Choice
By Fumiko Hayashi
This article reviews the current landscape for payment discounts and surcharges, considers whether they influence consumer payment choice, and offers several policy responses. -
Effects of Credit Scores on Consumer Payment Choice
By Fumiko Hayashi and Joanna Stavins
Credit scores significantly influence consumer payment behavior, especially debit and credit card use. Evidence suggests that this is due to supply-side constraints, such as the effect of credit scores on the cost of credit and access to credit. -
Model Uncertainty, State Uncertainty, and State-space Models
By Yulei Luo, Jun Nie and Eric R. Young
A classic macroeconomic framework with model uncertainty and state uncertainty can have a state-space representation and thus be used to address a range of interesting questions in macroeconomics and international economics.
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