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The Complementary Effects of Financial Education and Payday Lending Regulations on Financial Inclusion Financial education reduces adults’ likelihood of being unbanked, particularly in states where payday lending is also restricted. Quantitative Methods Payments Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Banking and Finance	Aditi Routh Carly Urban Expandable Row	October 16, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Labor Market Dynamics, Monetary Policy Tradeoffs, and a Shortfalls Approach to Pursuing Maximum Employment This paper assesses policy strategies that pursue maximum employment by mitigating shortfalls rather than deviations. Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Macroeconomics	Brent Bundick Isabel Cairó Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau Expandable Row	October 15, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Regression Model Selection Under General Conditions This paper shows that various model selection criteria—an important but debated statistical tool—in fact make similar selections. Quantitative Methods Research Working Paper	Amaze Lusompa Expandable Row	October 10, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Incomplete Information and Irreversible Investment Firms have incomplete information and investment is irreversible—two frictions that result in the misallocation of capital. Quantitative Methods Research Working Paper Macroeconomics	Jonathan J. Adams Cheng Chen Min Fang Takahiro Hattori Eugenio Rojas Expandable Row	September 5, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Unconventional Monetary Policy Spillovers and the (In)convenience of Treasuries When the convenience of U.S. Treasuries wanes, yields are more exposed to large-scale asset purchases by the European Central Bank. Quantitative Methods Research Working Paper International Banking and Finance Data and Trends	Karlye Dilts Stedman Andrew Hanson Expandable Row	September 4, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Evaluating Macroeconomic Outcomes Under Asymmetries: Expectations Matter Household and firm expectations play a key role in determining the effects of asymmetries on macroeconomic outcomes. Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Macroeconomics	Brent Bundick Isabel Cairó Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau Expandable Row	September 4, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Revisiting Adam Smith and the Division of Labor: New Evidence from U.S. Occupational Data, 1860–1940 Historical U.S. data support Adam Smith’s theory that market growth and innovation boost labor specialization and productivity. Labor and Demographics Research Working Paper	Nicholas A. Carollo Elior Cohen Jingyi Huang Expandable Row	September 3, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Worker and Firm Search in the Labor Market: Evidence from Classified Advertisements New city-level and national measures of firm and worker job searches offer insight into early 20th-century U.S. labor markets. Labor and Demographics Research Working Paper Macroeconomics Data and Trends	Huixin Bi Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau Nora Traum Greg Woodward Expandable Row	August 1, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
What Are Empirical Monetary Policy Shocks? Estimating the Term Structure of Policy News Monetary policy shocks contain a mixture of information about policy; a new method disentangles their components. Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Macroeconomics	Jonathan J. Adams Philip Barrett Expandable Row	July 16, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row
Measuring the Spectrum of Occupational Emissions A new data-driven approach reveals which occupations are most exposed to shifts in the energy mix. Natural Resources and Environment Labor and Demographics Economic Geography Research Working Paper Energy Regional Data and Trends	Elior Cohen Nida Çakır Melek Expandable Row	July 1, 2025 Expandable Row	Web Page Full Text Expandable Row