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Bias in Local Projections
Johannsen, Benjamin K.; Herbst, Edward
(2020-01-31)
Local projections (LPs) are a popular tool in applied macroeconomic research. We survey the related literature and find that LPs are often used with very small samples in the time dimension. With small sample sizes, given the high degree of persistence in most macroeconomic data, impulse responses estimated by LPs can be severely biased. This is true even if the right-hand-side variable in the LP is iid, or if the data set includes a large cross-section (i.e., panel data). We derive a simple expression to elucidate the source of the bias. Our expression highlights the interdependence between ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
, Paper 2020-010
Speech
Economics at the Federal Reserve banks
Dudley, William
(2014-01-04)
Remarks at the American Economic Association 2014 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Speech
, Paper 128
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Human Capital and Development
Manuelli, Rodolfo E.
(2015)
Perhaps no question has attracted as much attention in the economics literature as ?Why are some countries richer than others?? In this article, the author revisits the ?development problem? and provides some estimates of the importance of human capital in accounting for cross-country differences in output per worker. His results suggest that human capital has a central role in determining the wealth of nations and that the quality of human capital varies systematically with the level of development.
Review
, Volume 97
, Issue 3
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The global saving glut and the fall in U.S. real interest rates: A 15-year retrospective
Barsky, Robert; Easton, Matthew
(2021-03-31)
The authors revisit Ben Bernanke’s global saving glut (GSG) hypothesis from 2005—which links low long-term real interest rates in the United States to excess saving in a number of non-Western countries, including, but not limited to, China. Using an analytical framework and empirical data, they find that the ability of the GSG hypothesis to explain the fall in long-term real rates between 2002 and 2006 is likely much greater than its ability to account for the further fall in these rates from the Great Recession onward.
Economic Perspectives
, Issue EP-2021-1
, Pages 15
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Database of global economic indicators (DGEI): a methodological note
Grossman, Valerie; Mack, Adrienne; Martinez-Garcia, Enrique
(2013-12-31)
The Database of Global Economic Indicators (DGEI) from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is aimed at standardizing and disseminating world economic indicators for policy analysis and scholarly work on the role of globalization. The purpose of DGEI is to offer a broad perspective on how economic developments around the world influence the U.S. economy with a wide selection of indicators. DGEI is automated within an Excel-VBA and E-views framework for the processing and aggregation of multiple country time series. It includes a core sample of 40 countries with available indicators and broad ...
Globalization Institute Working Papers
, Paper 166
Newsletter
Some inflation scenarios for the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Melosi, Leonardo; Bianchi, Francesco
(2021-04-13)
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) signed into law on March 11, 2021, authorized approximately $1.9 trillion in federal government spending. ARP is widely expected to boost economic growth over the next two to three years—and significantly so early on. The upswing in growth is likely to increase resource pressures and therefore consumer price inflation as well. The potential for this channel to raise inflation substantially has attracted the attention of economic commentators, including Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence Summers. But the magnitudes and persistence of the possible increases in ...
Chicago Fed Letter
, Issue 453
, Pages 8
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The Fed's Asymmetric Forecast Errors
Chang, Andrew C.
(2018-04-16)
I show that the probability that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System staff's forecasts (the "Greenbooks'") overpredicted quarterly real gross domestic product (GDP) growth depends on both the forecast horizon and also whether the forecasted quarter was above or below trend real GDP growth. For forecasted quarters that grew below trend, Greenbooks were much more likely to overpredict real GDP growth, with one-quarter ahead forecasts overpredicting real GDP growth more than 75% of the time, and this rate of overprediction was higher for further ahead forecasts. For forecasted ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
, Paper 2018-026
Working Paper
Debt Limits and Credit Bubbles in General Equilibrium
Phan, Toan; Vailakis, Yiannis; Martins-da-Rocha, V. Filipe
(2019-10-11)
We provide a novel characterization of self-enforcing debt limits in a general equilibrium framework of risk sharing with limited commitment, where defaulters are subject to recourse (a fractional loss of current and future endowments) and exclusion from future credit. We show that debt limits are exactly equal to the present value of recourse plus a credit bubble component. We provide applications to models of sovereign debt, private collateralized debt, and domestic public debt. Implications include an original equivalence mapping among distinct institutional arrangements, thereby ...
Working Paper
, Paper 19-19
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Finding a Stable Phillips Curve Relationship: A Persistence-Dependent Regression Mode
Verbrugge, Randal; Ashley, Richard
(2020-04-08)
We establish that the Phillips curve is persistence-dependent: inflation responds differently to persistent versus moderately persistent (or versus transient) fluctuations in the unemployment gap. Previous work fails to model this dependence, so it finds numerous “inflation puzzles”—such as missing inflation/disinflation—noted in the literature. Our model specification eliminates these puzzles; for example, the Phillips curve has not weakened, and inflation is not “stubbornly low” at present. The model’s coefficients are stable, and it provides accurate conditional recursive ...
Working Papers
, Paper 19-09R
Discussion Paper
The Rise in Deposit Flightiness and Its Implications for Financial Stability
Blickle, Kristian S.; Li, Jian; Lu, Xu; Ma, Yiming
(2025-07-10)
Deposits are often perceived as a stable funding source for banks. However, the risk of deposits rapidly leaving banks—known as deposit flightiness—has come under increased scrutiny following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and other regional banks in March 2023. In a new paper, we show that deposit flightiness is not constant over time. In particular, flightiness reached historic highs after expansions in bank reserves associated with rounds of quantitative easing (QE). We argue that this elevated deposit flightiness may amplify the banking sector’s response to subsequent monetary ...
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