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Wealth, economic infrastructure, and monetary policy
Jordan, Jerry L. (1997-08)
An argument that it's not the specific "growth" programs that governments enact which determine a nation's prosperity, but the totality of the state's attitude toward the accumulation of private wealth, including the central bank's management of money.
Economic Commentary , Issue Aug

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Is the thrift performance gap widening? Evidence from Ohio
Watro, Paul R. (1988-08)
An analysis of differences in earnings of the best- and worst- performing savings and loan associations in Ohio, explaining how differences in revenues, expenses, and costs in the last five years have caused the healthy thrifts to perform better and the sick thrifts to perform worse.
Economic Commentary , Issue Aug

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International policy coordination: can we afford it?
Hoskins, W. Lee (1989-01)
A proposition that detailed global coordination of macroeconomic policies could have negative effects on real economic growth and efficiency, and that the integrity of private markets would be better assured through the maintenance of long-term nominal policy targets.
Economic Commentary , Issue Jan

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How soft a landing?
Erceg, John J.; Nickels, Paul J. (1989-11)
A summation of the outlook of 30 economists at the October 20, 1989 meeting of the Fourth District Economists' Roundtable, with major emphasis on the inflation outlook, GNP growth, and capital spending.
Economic Commentary , Issue Nov

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An anemic recovery?
Leovic, Lydia K.; Erceg, John J. (1991-08)
A report on the June 14, 1991 meeting of the Fourth District Economists' Roundtable, at which the consensus forecast was for a mild gain in output growth in the early stages of economic expansion and for a subdued recovery in the consumer spending, housing, and capital goods sectors.
Economic Commentary , Issue Aug

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Should we return to fixed exchange rates?
Karamouzis, Nicholas V. (1984-09)
An examination of arguments for and against the suggestion that nations should return to a Bretton Woods-type system of fixed exchange rates.
Economic Commentary , Issue Sep

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U.S. ethnic scientists and entrepreneurs
Kerr, William R. (2007-04)
Immigrants are exceptionally important for U.S. technology development, accounting for almost half of the country?s Ph.D. workforce in science and engineering. Most notably, the contribution of Chinese and Indian scientists and entrepreneurs in U.S. high-technology sectors increased dramatically in the 1990s. These ethnic scientific communities in the United States further help transfer new technologies back to their home countries.
Economic Commentary , Issue Apr

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How to keep growing “new economies”
Jordan, Jerry L. (2000-08)
Rather than debate whether technical advances have created a ?new economy,? economists should focus on the more interesting and useful question: How do we create the sort of environment in which innovation and the productive use of new technology thrive, thereby creating economic prosperity? This Economic Commentary discusses the features governments must incorporate into their institutions in order to build an economic infrastructure that promotes prosperity.
Economic Commentary , Issue Aug

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Student debt incidence: recent data and conceptual issues
Manes, Jordan B.; Phelan, Tom; Moschini, Emily (2022-12-19)
In recent years, the rising level of student debt has led to calls for increased government assistance in the form of partial or full student debt cancellation. In this Commentary, we use the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to study the incidence of student debt and cancellation benefits along quantiles of household income, net worth, and our estimate of lifetime wealth. We show that student debt is highly concentrated among households with low net worth, but much more evenly distributed across income and lifetime wealth. We then highlight several challenges in using such statistics to ...
Economic Commentary , Volume 2022 , Issue 16

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Excess Savings and Consumer Behavior: Excess Compared to What?
DeLuca, Martin; Pinheiro, Roberto (2023-11-20)
How much accumulated savings do households hold, and what do these savings imply about future consumption? Economists typically consider excess savings when gauging the level of savings that households may use to maintain real consumption as costs rise. Economists have estimated strikingly different levels of currently held excess savings. We highlight the differences between measures of counterfactual savings—that is, the amount of savings households would be expected to hold barring unusual events—and their relevance in computing post pandemic excess savings. Furthermore, we show that, ...
Economic Commentary , Volume 2023 , Issue 19 , Pages 10

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