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 ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using data from the euro area SAFE, a novel survey of firms’ inflation expectations including a randomized controlled trial (RCT), we show that firms’ ...

In this paper we exploit 150 years of tariff policy in the US and abroad to estimate the short-run effects of tariff shocks on macro aggregates. A careful review of the major changes in US tariff ...