SF Fed Regional Executives explore Spokane's economic landscape, uncovering insights on the bioscience, aerospace, and timber ...

New data shows continued contraction in homebuying market in 2023, though impacts varied across groups and geographies.

Findings reveal that 28% of the U.S. workforce—48.9 million people—live in a lower-income household (households with earnings below 80% of the typical household income in their community). More than ...

A decrease in oil supply drives up oil prices, which can raise unemployment and inflation. To counter adverse effects on ...

Using data from the euro area SAFE, a novel survey of firms’ inflation expectations including a randomized controlled trial ...

Bootstrap procedures for local projections typically rely on assuming that the data generating process (DGP) is a finite order vector autoregression (VAR), often taken to be that implied by the local ...

We document evidence of a U-shaped relationship between financial development and the adjustments of foreign exchange (FX) reserve holdings in response to a U.S. interest rate increase. Countries with ...

Internal migration has been cited as a key channel by which societies will adapt to climate change. We show in this paper that this process has already been happening in the United States. Over the ...

The fraction of men working in the United States has declined consistently since the 1950s. This has contributed to slower labor force growth and resulted in considerable gaps between labor force ...

This paper introduces the U.S. Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (USMPD), a novel, public, and regularly updated dataset of financial market data around Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy ...

We review the “production approach” to estimating markups—the ratio of price to marginal cost. Paired with increasingly rich microdata and advances in production function estimation, the method ...

The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data underlying the unemployment rate can help in assessing which labor market ...