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Author:Owyang, Michael T. 

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Putting off retirement: the rise of the 401(k)

National Economic Trends , Issue Mar

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Introducing the St. Louis Fed Price Pressures Measure

Assessing inflation?s likely path matters to policymakers and those in financial markets.
Economic Synopses , Issue 25

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Your current job probably won't be your last

National Economic Trends , Issue Feb

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Splitsville: the economics of unilateral divorce

New studies have looked at the impact of easier divorce on everything from women working outside the home to children's education to spousal violence.
The Regional Economist , Issue Jan , Pages 12-16

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Social changes lead married women into labor force

The ranks of women in the workforce jumped by more than 24 percentage points between 1955 and 1999. Credit labor-saving devices at home (such as the dishwasher), the birth-control pill and the preference by some men to marry a woman who works outside the home.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr , Pages 10-11

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The long and the short of the federal funds target cuts

Monetary Trends , Issue Sep

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Extra credit: the rise of short-term liabilities

Not only are more American families in debt, but the median value of the debt more than doubled between 1989 and 2004. Credit cards and payday loans are two of the favorite tools for digging the hole deeper.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr , Pages 12-13

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Disentangling diverse measures: a survey of financial stress indexes

The recent financial crisis helped emphasize the need for measures of financial conditions. In the wake of the crisis, several researchers and institutions?both private sector and central bank?developed measures of financial stress. These measures are intended to capture, among other things, the liquidity in financial markets and potentially forecast changes in real economic conditions. Unfortunately, there is no agreement about which variables should be included in a measure of stress. The authors survey a number of financial stress indexes, comparing the datasets from which they are ...
Review , Issue Sep , Pages 369-398

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Dealing with the Leftovers: Residual Seasonality in GDP

Residual seasonality in gross domestic product can make it difficult for policymakers to know whether weak first-quarter GDP growth is due to an actual downturn or a reported number that is understated.
The Regional Economist , Volume 26 , Issue 4

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Comparing Measures of Potential Output

One of the goals of stabilization policy is to reduce the output gap?the difference between potential and actual output?during downturns. Potential output, however, is an unobserved variable whose definition can vary. For example, some view potential output as the level of output that can be produced when employment is at the natural rate. Others use trend measures of output to measure potential. We survey some of these measures using both full-sample data (all of the data that would be available through June 2017) and real-time data (the actual data that would have been available at ...
Review , Volume 100 , Issue 4 , Pages 297-316

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