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A snapshot of the Midwest economy: past and present
Lu, Chenfei; Brave, Scott (2010-11)
For over ten years, the Chicago Fed has published an index of national economic activity, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index. Here, the authors build on the methodology underlying this index to construct a Midwest counterpart that captures variation in economic activity in the five states that make up the Seventh Federal Reserve District.
Chicago Fed Letter , Issue Nov