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Economic Brief

December 2009, No. 09-12

The Effect of Interest on Reserves on Monetary Policy

John R. Walter and Renee Haltom

November 2009, No. 09-11

Rolling Back the Financial Safety Net

Robert L. Hetzel and Stephen Slivinski

October 2009, No. 09-10

The Case for Direct Methods to Address CO2 Emissions and Other Negative Environmental Externalities

Kartik B. Athreya and Renee Haltom

September 2009, No. 09-09

Deterring Default: Why Some State Laws Decrease the Probability of Mortgage Foreclosures

Andra C. Ghent, Marianna Kudlyak and Stephen Slivinski

August 2009, No. 09-08

Recent Fiscal Policy and the Manipulation of Aggregate Economic Activity

Kartik B. Athreya and Renee Haltom

July 2009, No. 09-07

Systemic Risk Regulation and the "Too Big to Fail" Problem

Borys Grochulski and Stephen Slivinski

June 2009, No. 09-06

The Growth of Paperless Money: Retail Payments in the United States Continue to Evolve

T. Stuart Desch and Kiran Krishnamurthy

May 2009, No. 09-05

The Costs and Benefits of Bank Supervisory Disclosure

Edward S. Prescott and Stephen Slivinski

April 2009, No. 09-04

What We Do and Don't Know about Discretionary Fiscal Policy

March 2009, No. 09-03

Rationalizing Financial Literacy Policy

Kartik B. Athreya and Anne Stiwell

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