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Trends and Determinants of U.S. Markups
03 Apr ’24
Research in Focus — Enghin Atalay of the Philadelphia Fed and his coauthors examined markups over time and considered the role of firm costs, market concentration, and consumer preferences.
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It’s Not Just Who You Know, It’s How You Know Them
Economic Insights — Not all job referrals are the same. Referrals from friends and family are used by different workers – and have different benefits – than referrals from work colleagues.
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Inference Based on Time-Varying SVARs Identified with Sign Restrictions
WP 24-05 – We propose a new methodology for causal inference in time-varying structural vector autoregressions. We illustrate our approach for inference by analyzing the role played by monetary policy during the latest inflation surge.
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The Changing Polarization of Party Ideologies: The Role of Sorting
WP 24-04 – History shows that when political parties become more polarized along one dimension of policy, they become less polarized along some other dimension. We explain how this can happen via changes in the ideological make up parties.
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Livingston Survey
The oldest continuous survey of economists' expectations that summarizes the forecasts of economists from industry, government, banking, and academia
Updated: 15 Dec ’23
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An index designed to track real business conditions at high observation frequency
Updated: 03 May ’24
Real-Time Data Set for Macroeconomists
The real-time data set consists of vintages, or snapshots, of time series of major macroeconomic variables. The data set may be used by macroeconomic researchers to verify empirical results, to analyze policy, or to forecast. All data are updated at the end of each month.
Updated: 26 Apr ’24
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Measure of the quarter-over-quarter rate of growth of real output in continuously compounded annualized percentage points
Updated: 25 Apr ’24
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A continuous curve of inflation expectations three to 120 months ahead, analogous to a yield curve
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