Dallas Fed recent additions
A comprehensive list of recently added postings on Dallasfed.org.
Opening remarks for panel titled ‘The increasing role of nonbank institutions in the Treasury and money markets’
As moderator of a panel discussion, Dallas Fed President Logan gathered industry experts’ views on the role of nonbank institutions in Treasury and money markets and how to enhance these markets’ resilience.
May 19, 2025
Banking Conditions Survey
Loan volume grew slightly while loan demand was unchanged in May. Credit tightening continued, but loan pricing declined.
May 19, 2025
Texas Employment Forecast
The Texas Employment Forecast indicates jobs will increase 1.7 percent in 2025, with an 80 percent confidence band of 1.1 to 2.3 percent.
May 16, 2025
What Drives Cyber Losses at U.S. Banks? Potential Statistical Markers
This paper models average annual loss (AAL) rates from “attritional” cyber-attacks and other cyber events using new, individual bank level data from the CyberCube “analytics platform” combined with standard bank performance measures.
May 15, 2025
Weekly Economic Index
The WEI is currently 2.09 percent, scaled to four-quarter GDP growth, for the week ended May 10 and 2.55 percent for May 3.
May 15, 2025
Texas’ economic outlook deteriorates as tariff-related uncertainty builds
While lagging indicators reflect resilient growth for the Texas economy, more recent survey data suggest diminished momentum amid elevated uncertainty about the outlook.
May 15, 2025
The Social Returns to Public R&D
Recent empirical evidence by Fieldhouse and Mertens (2024) points to a strong causal link between federal nondefense R&D funding and private-sector productivity growth, and large implied social returns to public R&D investment. This paper shows that these high social return estimates broadly align with existing evidence on the social returns to private or total R&D spending.
May 14, 2025
Permian Basin Economic Indicators
Employment in the Permian Basin grew in the first quarter. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in the region increased slightly from the end of fourth quarter 2024. Home sales decreased, while the median price of homes sold fell slightly.
May 14, 2025
An Information-Based Theory of Monopsony Power
This paper develops a tractable model of monopsony power based on information frictions in job search.
May 13, 2025
Rio Grande Valley Economic Indicators
The Rio Grande Valley saw strong employment growth in the first quarter. Unemployment rose, and year-over-year wage increases were mixed. Cross-border trade fell off.
May 13, 2025