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Dallas Fed Economics Archive

Analysis and insights to enhance your understanding of the economy
  • Lutz Kilian

    Interest has recently increased in the question of whether the destabilization of inflation during the 1970s might repeat itself in the 2020s.
  • Rosie Levy and Matthew McCormick

    As system liquidity declines and rates of return rise, new types of participants enter repo markets as lenders, although some may not be able to reliably deploy cash in the early morning when markets are most active. The short tenor and early-morning timing of most private market repo transactions make domestic banks especially inelastic lenders in response to unanticipated demands for lending.
  • Hugo De Vere, Srini Ramaswamy, Seth Searls

    Financing needs related to AI data center investments are likely to be large and persistent. While the overall economics of such investments remains a topic of much debate, the duration supply implications for U.S. interest rate markets have received less attention.
  • Emma Weiss and Amy Chapel

    A research workshop hosted by the Federal Reserve banks of Boston, Chicago and Dallas focused on trade-offs between increased efficiency and specialized expertise and the potential introduction of vulnerabilities that companies face when dealing with third-party service providers.
  • Cameron Barrett, Kunal Patel and Michael Plante

    Texas is now the top state for utility-scale solar power generation capacity. However, developers of new solar projects face a changing operating environment, one lacking strong federal policy support but also featuring cost-boosting tariffs on imported solar module components.
  • Tryg Aanenson, Erik Andres Escayola, Enrique Martínez García, Efthymios Pavlidis, Iván Payá and Kostas Vasilopoulos

    House prices matter to more than just individual homebuyers and sellers. They are closely tied to consumer spending, business investment and the broader path of the economy.
  • Daniel Wilson and Xiaoqing Zhou

    A sudden reversal in U.S. net unauthorized immigration has important implications for the demographic outlook, labor force participation, employment growth and local labor markets.
  • Tyler Atkinson and Shane Yamco

    In recent years, unemployment has gradually ticked up, and job searchers report increased difficulty finding new work. Is this related to AI?
  • Enrique Martínez García and Mark Wynne

    During a presentation and discussion hosted by the Global Institute last month, Steve Kamin discussed how tariffs, volatility and evolving payment technologies are challenging—but not yet dislodging—the dollar’s position as a reserve currency at the center of the global financial system.
  • Brendan Kelly and J. Scott Davis

    Nearly 30 percent of China's industrial firms operate at a loss, up from 20 percent before the pandemic. The question arises: How can this be sustained?