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Dallas Fed Economics
February 7, 2023
Alexander W. Richter and Nathaniel Throckmorton
Some economists have argued that because the job vacancy rate has been well above its prepandemic level, there is plenty of room for vacancies to fall before the unemployment rate must rise.
January 19, 2023
Lei Fang and Fang Yang
Western Europe differs from the United States not only in consumption tax, income tax and social security systems but also in the total factor productivity—a measure of productivity—for market production in which most European countries are low.
January 17, 2023
Garrett Golding
New regulations, weatherization standards and operational changes have addressed many shortcomings, but some critical gaps persist.
January 10, 2023
Aparna Jayashankar and Anthony Murphy
Household survey results do not support Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman's recent suggestion that low-income families “have actually been hurt less by inflation than families with higher incomes.”
January 3, 2023
Alessio Saretto
DeFi applications allow users to directly interact with each other to borrow, lend, insure and exchange digital assets without centralized intermediaries, such as banks and custodial exchanges.
December 27, 2022
Xiaoqing Zhou
The prevalence of low-rate mortgages suggests that future policy rate cuts may not as effectively stimulate household spending through refinancing as during past recessions.
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