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Sheepskin blues
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Before the next cataclysm
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Rethinking Mortgage Design
Because mortgages make up the majority of household debt in most developed countries, mortgage design has important implications for macroeconomic policy and household welfare. As one example, most U.S. mortgages have fixed interest rates?if interest rates fall, existing borrowers need to refinance to lower their interest payments. In practice, households are often slow to refinance, or may not be able to do so. As a result, the transmission of U.S. monetary policy is dampened relative to countries like the United Kingdom where mortgage rates on most loans adjust automatically with short-term ...
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Statecraft: economic ambitions in Connecticut
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Did the credit crunch cause a rash of business failures?
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The market for hotels: if they come will you build it?
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The new New Englanders
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How long will it last?
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Where opportunity rings