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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
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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
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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
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The Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Belief Distortions: Model-Free Evidence

Data suggest that monetary policy should ease to offset inflation over-pessimism among households.

Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Macroeconomics
Jonathan J. Adams
Symeon Taipliadis Expandable Row
June 23, 2025
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How High Does High Frequency Need to Be? A Comparison of Daily and Intradaily Monetary Policy Surprises

Daily data can be a reasonable substitute for intraday data in measuring the effects of monetary policy announcements, with some adjustments.

Quantitative Methods Research Working Paper Banking and Finance Data and Trends
Phillip An
Karlye Dilts Stedman
Amaze Lusompa Expandable Row
May 16, 2025
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Monetary Policy Transmission, Bank Market Power, and Income Source

Banks can maintain lower deposit rates due to market power in financial services.

Quantitative Methods Payments Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Banking and Finance
Isabel Gödl-Hanisch
Jordan Pandolfo Expandable Row
April 25, 2025
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A Better Delineation of U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Official U.S. delineations of metropolitan areas stray significantly from common-sense perceptions of areas within which people travel daily. A simple algorithm delineates “Kernel-Based Metropolitan Areas” to better match these areas.

Economic Geography Research Working Paper Regional
Jordan Rappaport
McKenzie Humann Expandable Row
April 11, 2025
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Maintaining the Anchor: An Evaluation of Inflation Targeting in the Face of COVID-19

Globally, central banks prevented high inflation post-pandemic from becoming embedded in inflation expectations.

Covid-19 Research Research Working Paper Monetary Policy Macroeconomics Inflation
Brent Bundick
A. Lee Smith
Luca Van der Meer Expandable Row
December 20, 2024
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The Passthrough of Agricultural Commodity Prices to Food Prices

Agricultural commodities prices have had a small and uncertain effect on changes in food prices at least since 2008.

Research Working Paper Agriculture Inflation
Francisco Scott
Amaze Lusompa
David Rodziewicz
Cortney Cowley
Jacob Dice Expandable Row
December 20, 2024
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Examining the Financial Accelerator: Bank Responses to the 2014 Oil Price Shock

By restricting lending, banks may amplify economic downturns for vulnerable firms.

Research Working Paper Banking and Finance
W. Blake Marsh
Rajdeep Sengupta
David Rodziewicz Expandable Row
December 9, 2024
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