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Study links Fed survey to credit card mail offers
Federal Reserve researchers link the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) with credit card mail offers.
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Noncash payments reach 236.6 billion, tripling since 2000
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday issued initial findings from its 2025 triennial payments study, revealing that noncash payments by consumers and businesses increased to 236.6 billion in 2024.
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2026 list of distressed, underserved rural areas released
The Federal Reserve and other agencies have released the 2026 list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies.
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Financial frictions drive firm productivity differences, TFP variance
A new FEDS paper models how financial frictions cause productivity differences across firms, widening dispersion in downturns.
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Age properties accelerate heterogeneous-agent models
A new Federal Reserve paper introduces a method to compute Sequence-Space Jacobians for heterogeneous-agent overlapping generations (HA-OLG) models orders of magnitude faster.
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Large banks resilient to severe recession, stress test confirms
The Federal Reserve Board's annual bank stress test confirmed that large banks are well positioned to weather a severe recession.
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Cook highlights small business AI use, Fed data importance
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook emphasized the critical role of small businesses in the U.S. economy and the importance of high-quality data from the Fed's Small Business Credit Survey.
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DiD methods: No single best, performance context-dependent
Federal Reserve economists John Coglianese and Jade A. Fang evaluated the empirical performance of difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators using over 134,000 state-level placebo event studies.
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Long-run growth shocks steepen equity yield curve, boost dividends
A Federal Reserve study finds that positive long-run growth shocks steepen the equity yield curve by increasing expected dividend growth.
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Tight labor markets improve job quality, not just wages
A new Federal Reserve study finds that tight labor markets significantly improve job quality for workers changing jobs.
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Static capital buffer outperforms complex dynamic rules
A Federal Reserve working paper argues that simple static capital buffers are more effective than complex dynamic rules in preventing excessive bank risk-taking.
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Repo market capacity constrains Fed balance sheet size
A new Federal Reserve paper argues that repo market capacity, driven by money market fund liquidity, is the primary constraint on the Fed's balance sheet size.