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What Happened to Foreign Direct Investment in the United States?

This note demonstrates that the slowdown in FDIUS can be explained by two special factors: 1) a handful of corporate restructurings that are purely tax- and regulation-driven and affect the equity portion of direct investment flows, and 2) a reversal in intercompany debt flows that are often the result of corporate tax planning.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2020-02-13

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Comparing Means of Payment: What Role for a Central Bank Digital Currency?

This paper looks at the potential benefit that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could provide in the context of existing payment mechanisms. Central banks today provide the primary payment mechanisms for trade and commerce: cash, used by the public, and electronic payment services, used by eligible financial institutions.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2020-08-13-2

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Using Cross-State Variation to Assess the Potential for Additional Improvement in Measures of Labor Market Conditions

While the national unemployment rate and the monthly change in payroll employment receive considerable attention among analysts seeking to assess the current state of the labor market, a broader range of labor market indicators are potentially also useful.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2014-06-02-1

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Does it Matter who your Parents are? Findings on Economic Mobility from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking

Coming out of the Great Recession, there are renewed concerns about the level of economic opportunity throughout the income distribution and the extent to which economic advancement is a realistic goal for all American families.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2015-07-20

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Natural Disasters and the Measurement of Industrial Production: Hurricane Harvey, A Case Study

The Federal Reserve's G.17 release on industrial production (IP) and capacity utilization published on September 15, 2017, included one of the first estimates of the impact on a specific measure of economic activity by Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas on August 25. As reported in the release, total industrial production fell 0.9 percent in August, most of which (about 3/4 percentage point) could be accounted for by storm-related outages.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2017-10-11

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