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These web-exclusive essays on current economic issues and trends are based on staff economists' ongoing research and published work.

December 2018, No. 18-12

Have Yield Curve Inversions Become More Likely?

Renee Haltom, Elaine Wissuchek and Alexander L. Wolman

November 2018, No. 18-11

The Differing Effects of the Business Cycle on Small and Large Banks

Borys Grochulski, Daniel Schwam, Aaron Steelman and Yuzhe Zhang

October 2018, No. 18-10

Inequality in and across Cities

Jessie Romero and Felipe F. Schwartzman

September 2018, No. 18-09

How Likely Is a Return to the Zero Lower Bound?

Thomas A. Lubik, Christian Matthes and David A. Price

August 2018, No. 18-08

The Impact of Higher Temperatures on Economic Growth

Riccardo Colacito, Bridget Hoffmann, Toan Phan and Tim Sablik

July 2018, No. 18-07

Slowing Growth in Educational Attainment

Urvi Neelakantan and Jessie Romero

June 2018, No. 18-06

Assessing Large Financial Firm Resolvability

Renee Haltom, Arantxa Jarque and John R. Walter

May 2018, No. 18-05

Estimating Aggregate Fiscal Multipliers from Local Data

Bill Dupor, Marios Karabarbounis, Marianna Kudlyak, M. Saif Mehkari and David A. Price

April 2018, No. 18-04

The Roots of ‘Bubbly’ Recessions

Helen Fessenden and Toan Phan

March 2018, No. 18-03

Preventing Bank Runs

Renee Haltom and Bruno Sultanum

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