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Fed liquidity facility successfully anchored commercial real estate amid pandemic
The Federal Reserve responded to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic with several liquidity facilities to ensure a continuing flow of credit to households and businesses. The TALF, which financed highly rated asset-backed securities, proved especially important to supporting commercial real estate finance.
May 24, 2022
Mexico’s economic growth picks up, but outlook weakens
Mexico’s GDP grew an annualized 3.6 percent in first quarter 2022, an increase from fourth quarter’s dismal 0.1 percent growth. Nevertheless, first-quarter GDP growth was below analysts’ expectations of 4.6 percent.
May 23, 2022
Texas Employment Forecast
The Texas Employment Forecast estimates that jobs will increase 3.7 percent in 2022, with an 80 percent confidence band of 2.9 to 4.5 percent.
May 20, 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine will leave scars on U.S., world economies
The conflict may alter the global economic and geopolitical order, leading to a new era of deglobalization.
May 17, 2022
Banking Conditions Survey
Loan volume grew over the past six weeks amid broad increases in loan pricing. This growth was the fastest since the survey began in 2017.
May 16, 2022
Economy's essential early care and education industry recovering but still faces labor shortfall
When the pandemic first struck and many child care centers closed, ECE worker unemployment spiked. Now that two years have passed since the onset of COVID-19 in the United States, to what extent has the industry recovered?
May 16, 2022
Energy and Inflation: Drivers and Solutions
Bringing together leading thinkers and experts from the energy sector, along with economists and policymakers, this virtual symposium explored the factors influencing energy prices and ways to stabilize costs, particularly in the near term.
May 13, 2022
The Global Financial Cycle and Capital Flows During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper estimates the heterogeneous effect of the global financial cycle on exchange rates and cross-border capital flows during the COVID-19 pandemic, using weekly exchange rate and portfolio flow data for a panel of 48 advanced and emerging market economies.
May 13, 2022
Texas job growth moderates as price pressures, supply-chain issues persist
Texas employment growth eased in March, though it remained steady in the first quarter and exceeded U.S. job growth.
May 12, 2022
The Distributional Effects of COVID-19 and Optimal Mitigation Policies
This paper develops a quantitative heterogeneous agent-life cycle model with a fully integrated epidemiological model in which economic decisions affect the spread of COVID-19 and vice versa.
May 12, 2022