Historical Publications

Economic and Financial Review

Economic and Financial Review was published from 1999 until 2001. Issues are available online on FRASER, the Federal Reserve's digital library of U.S. economic, financial and banking history.

Fourth Quarter 2001

• The Engine of Capitalist Process: Entrepreneurs in Economic Theory
  Robert L. Formaini

• Banking and Currency Crisis Recovery: Brazil's Turnaround of 1999
  William C. Gruben and John H. Welch

• Recovery from a Financial Crisis: The Case of South Korea
  Jahyeong Koo and Sherry L. Kiser

Third Quarter 2001

• Educational Attainment and Border Income Performance
  Thomas M. Fullerton Jr.

• Was NAFTA Behind Mexico's High Maquiladora Growth?
  William C. Gruben

• Explaining Stock Price Movements: Is There a Case for Fundamentals?
  Nathan S. Balke and Mark E. Wohar

Second Quarter 2001

• Can the Stock Market Tell Bank Supervisors Anything They Don't Already Know?
  Jeffery W. Gunther, Mark E. Levonian, and Robert R. Moore

• The Democratization of America's Capital Markets
  John V. Duca

• The Transition to Consumption Taxation, Part 2: The Impact on Existing Financial Assets
  Alan D. Viard

First Quarter 2001

• Illegal Immigration and Enforcement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Overview
  Pia M. Orrenius

• B2B eMarketplace Announcements and Shareholder Wealth
  Andrew H. Chen and Thomas F. Siems

• Consolidation, Technology, and the Changing Structure of Banks' Small Business Lending
  David P. Ely and Kenneth J. Robinson

Fourth Quarter 2000

• Evaluating the Eleventh District's Beige Book
  Nathan S. Balke and Mine K. Yücel

• Is There a Persistence Problem? Part 2: Maybe Not
  Evan F. Koenig

• Reliance, Composition, and Inflation
  Joydeep Bhattacharya and Joseph H. Haslag

Third Quarter 2000

• The Transition to Consumption Taxation, Part 1: The Impact on Existing Capital
  Alan D. Viard

• Gasoline and Crude Oil Prices: Why the Asymmetry?
  Stephen P. A. Brown and Mine K. Yücel

• Financial Statements and Reality: Do Troubled Banks Tell All?
  Jeffery W. Gunther and Robert R. Moore

Second Quarter 2000

• The Evidence on Government Competition
  Lori L. Taylor

• The Economic Impact of Bank Structure: A Review of Recent Literature
  Mark G. Guzman

• The Effect of Welfare Reform and Technological Change on Unemployment
  Jason L. Saving

First Quarter 2000

• Natural Resource Scarcity and Technological Change
  Stephen P. A. Brown and Daniel Wolk

• EMU at 1
  Mark A. Wynne

• Measuring the Benefits of Unilateral Trade Liberalization
  Part 2: Dynamic Models
  Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga

Fourth Quarter 1999

• The Nature and Significance of Intra-industry Trade
  Roy J. Ruffin
• Is There a Persistence Problem? Part 1: Maybe
  Evan F. Koenig

Third Quarter 1999

• What Credit Market Indicators Tell Us
  John V. Duca
• Measuring the Benefits of Unilateral Trade Liberalization, Part 1: Static Models
  Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga
• Monetary Policy Arithmetic: Some Recent Contributions
  Joydeep Bhattacharya and Joseph H. Haslag

Second Quarter 1999

• The New Budget Outlook: Policymakers Respond to the Surplus
  Alan D. Viard
• Oil Prices and U.S. Aggregate Economic Activity: A Question of Neutrality
  Stephen P. A. Brown and Mine K. Yücel
• Industry Mix and Lending Environment Variability: What Does the Average Bank Face?
  Jeffery W. Gunther and Kenneth J. Robinson
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The CRA–Safety and Soundness Pinch
  Jeffery W. Gunther