Dallas Fed Economics Archive
Analysis and insights to enhance your understanding of the economy
December 24, 2020
Keith R. Phillips and Judy Teng
Texas job growth has slowed after new daily COVID-19 cases in the state began surging in mid-October.
December 1, 2020
Mark A. Wynne
Mark Carney, special envoy for climate action and finance at the United Nations, discussed climate change and central banks, COVID-19 and central banking, the complementary roles of monetary and fiscal policy, and community engagement with Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan.
November 24, 2020
Mark A. Wynne
Taylor and Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan discussed the origins of the Taylor Rule, the dangers of holding monetary policy too accommodative for too long, the distributional effects of low interest rates and expanded central bank mandates.
November 17, 2020
Emma Marshall and Keith R. Phillips
The 2020 downturn has differed from past recessions in many ways, particularly affecting high-contact service industries that contain a large number of independent businesses with few employees.
November 12, 2020
Yichen Su and Carlee Crocker
Indicative of slowing job expansion, the Texas unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent in September from 6.8 percent in August and exceeded the national rate (7.9 percent) for the first time since March.
November 10, 2020
Tyler Atkinson and Alexander W. Richter
Data showing changes in labor force participation rates for several demographics reveal that women with children, especially Black women, have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
October 27, 2020
Mark A. Wynne
Díaz de León and Dallas Fed President Robert S. Kaplan discussed COVID-19, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) and inflation targeting.
October 20, 2020
Mark A. Wynne
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas recently hosted Fisher, who served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2005 to 2015, as part of the Bank’s Global Perspectives speaker series.
October 13, 2020
Carlee Crocker and Wenhua Di
After a series of disruptions in March and April that coincided with the widespread outbreak in the U.S., the auto industry has entered a recovery period, though its path forward remains uncertain.
October 6, 2020
Abigail Boatwright and Mark A. Wynne
A number of studies have shown that individual households and businesses voluntarily scaling back social interactions as they learned about the risks associated with COVID-19 have probably played a more important role in damping economic activity than government mandates.