Dallas Fed Economics Archive
Analysis and insights to enhance your understanding of the economy
February 21, 2023
Lutz Kilian and Kunal Patel
Much has been made about the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the price of oil. However, the price of oil was already drifting upward well before the invasion in late February 2022.
February 16, 2023
Matias Ossandon Busch, W. Scott Frame and Carola Müller
The COVID-19 pandemic, recent monetary tightening and a strengthening U.S. dollar were the themes explored during a recent conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) and held at CEMLA’s Mexico City headquarters.
February 14, 2023
SungJe Byun and Joseph Kneip
Residential solar is a small and rapidly expanding sector, and the securitization market—the packaging of loans to investors—has been one of the most popular sources of funding for new solar installations.
February 9, 2023
Ana Pranger and Emily Kerr
Texas firms reported below-average output growth to start 2023, while employment and wage gains remained elevated despite indications of a softening labor market.
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.