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How diversified is New England?
Rosengren, Eric S. (1990-11)
Despite steady growth in the United States economy over the past eight years, several regions of the country have suffered severe economic slumps. Oil-producing and agricultural states in particular have experienced economic conditions that usually occur only during national recessions. Lack of diversity in the economies of these regions contributed to their economic problems. ; Recently, it has been New Englands turn; its economic performance has deteriorated significantly. This article examines the diversity of the New England economy. The author finds that New England has a diverse ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 3-16

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Youth unemployment and the transition from school to work: programs in Boston, Frankfurt, and London
Spring, William J. (1987-03)
New England Economic Review , Issue Mar , Pages 3-16

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On the predictive power of interest rates and interest rate spreads
Bernanke, Ben S. (1990-11)
Economists have long understood that financial market variables contain considerable information about the future of the economy. Recently a number of researchers have pointed out that interest rates and interest rate spreads--that is, differences between interest rates on alternative financial assets--can be effective predictors of the economy. ; This finding raises a number of questions, possibly the most important being why interest rates and spreads predict the course of the economy so well. The authors tentative conclusion is that the spread between commercial paper and Treasury bill ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Nov , Pages 51-68

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The changing fortunes of American families in the 1980s
Bradbury, Katharine L. (1990-07)
After the recessions of 1980 and 1981-82, family income in the United States expanded through most of the 1980s. The decade brought gains in living standards to most families, but these gains were not distributed evenly; the rich grew richer but the poor grew poorer. This article examines shifts in the sources of family income and family work patterns between 1979 and 1988 in order to address the question: Why were the periods income gains so unevenly distributed? ; The first section describes the changes that occurred in the distribution of family income in the 1980s, and discusses some ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Jul , Pages 25-40

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The taxation of banks: particular privileges or objectionable burdens?
Henderson, Yolanda K. (1987-05)
New England Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 3-18

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Job creation and destruction in Massachusetts: gross flows among industries
Bradbury, Katharine L. (1999-09)
The Massachusetts economy has experienced wide swings in employment in the 1990s, losing over 10 percent of existing jobs in the 1990-91 recession (which began locally in 1989) and not surpassing its pre-recession job peak until early 1998. Within individual sectors of the economy, the losses and gains have been even greater, with many manufacturing industries losing jobs almost nonstop while some non-manufacturing industries have expanded markedly. This article examines these employment swings and attempts to better understand their dynamic underpinnings by disaggregating them into the ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 33-52

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Effect of consumer characteristics on the use of payment instruments
Stavins, Joanna (2002-07-03)
Predictions about a cashless and checkless society have been made for many years, but retail payments transactions made with electronic payment instruments still constitute only a small fraction of all payments made in the United States. This is the case despite differences in cost and despite marketing and educational campaigns conducted by the Federal Reserve and other institutions. One of the reasons the cost differences have little effect is that the differences in cost among payment instruments typically are not evident to consumers, who are charged the same amount regardless of how they ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Q 3 , Pages 19-31

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Should Massachusetts reform its bank tax?
Tannenwald, Robert (1988-09)
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 23-35

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The evolution of monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System over the past thirty years: an overview
Browne, Lynn E. (2001)
Over the past thirty years, the activities of the Federal Reserve System have undergone major change. Public interest and confidence in monetary policy have grown immensely. Low inflation has emerged, if not as the primary objective of monetary policy, at least as a more central focus than it was thirty years ago. The Federal Reserve System has also undergone changes. Reserve Banks now charge for many of their financial services, rather than providing them free to banks that are System members. Placed in competition with commercial banks in providing financial services, Reserve Banks have ...
New England Economic Review

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Implications of the globalization of the banking sector: the Latin American experience
Rosengren, Eric S.; Peek, Joe (2000-09)
Foreign entry into domestic banking markets remains a contentious issue. Whether privatizing a state bank in Brazil or selling a failed bank in Japan, the proposed sale of a large domestic financial institution, possibly to a foreign acquirer, frequently results in a major controversy. Many Asian countries have yet to experience major foreign penetration of domestic banking markets, while Latin American countries have privatized many of their banks and have encouraged foreign banks to enter their domestic markets. ; Because many Latin American countries opened their markets during the 1990s, ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Sep , Pages 45-62

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