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Fourth District community affairs outlook: regional legacy paves the way for new initiatives
The Fourth District faced a number of economic challenges in 2001, including a national economic recession, a downturn in manufacturing, and the aftershocks of September 11. Today, many of our local economies are under pressure to transform their older industrial and agricultural roots with new economic engines.
Speech
REO and vacant property strategies for neighborhood stabilization: Reserve Bank Presidents’ perspective, a speech presented at the Neighborhood Stabilization Summit in Washington, D.C. on September 2, 2010
In a speech at the REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization Summit, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President and CEO Sandra Pianalto discussed the weak housing market in her region and some of the ideas that have emerged from the Bank's research and outreach efforts related to the housing crisis. She concluded by describing a new proposal to use the Community Reinvestment Act's flexibility to channel more resources to REO disposition.
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How are wages determined?
An analysis of the role of employers in wage-setting across three Fourth Federal Reserve District labor markets--Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh--during the years 1955-1988.
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Labor productivity growth across states
Labor productivity growth, a measure of output per unit of work, is closely tied to gains in wages and living standards, and it provides a direct measure of a country?s competitive position over time. The same holds true for states. Since the last business cycle peak in 2000, states boosted their average labor productivity growth to 2.3 percent. In Ohio, this growth came as a result of modest output growth accompanied by sharp employment losses. Although this has been a painful transition for the Fourth District, solid productivity gains have made the remaining firms and workers more ...
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NAFTA and the Midwest
Proceedings of the October 2, 1992 meeting of the Fourth District Economists' Roundtable, which looked at the North American Free Trade Agreement's likely impact on the U.S. and Midwest economies.
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Deregulation and deposit pricing
A deposit-pricing survey and comparison of 112 depository institutions in the Fourth Federal Reserve District, covering MMDAs, Super-NOWS, and CDs in an examination of the effect of interest-rate deregulation on banks and thrifts.