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Economic Brief

December 2012, No. 12-12

A Citizen's Guide to Unconventional Monetary Policy

Renee Haltom and Alexander L. Wolman

November 2012, No. 12-11

Are Depression-Era Employment Swings Overstated?

Jonathon Lecznar, Jessie Romero and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

October 2012, No. 12-10

Explaining an Industry Cluster: The Case of U.S. Car Makers from 1895-1969

David A. Price and Zhu Wang

September 2012, No. 12-09

Can Orderly Liquidation Solve the Problems of Bailouts and Bankruptcies?

Betty Joyce Nash, Sabrina R. Pellerin and John R. Walter

August 2012, No. 12-08

TARGET2: Symptom, Not Cause, of Eurozone Woes

Thomas A. Lubik and Karl Rhodes

July 2012, No. 12-07

Unsustainable Fiscal Policy: Implications for Monetary Policy

Renee Haltom and John A. Weinberg

June 2012, No. 12-06

The Increased Role of Flows Between Nonparticipation and Unemployment During the Great Recession and Recovery

Marianna Kudlyak and David A. Price

May 2012, No. 12-05

Microenterprise and the Small-Dollar Loan Market

Tammie Hoy, Jessie Romero and Kimberly Zeuli

April 2012, No. 12-04

The Spice of Life: Allowing for Heterogeneity in Macro Models

Kartik B. Athreya and Renee Haltom

March 2012, No. 12-03

Loan Loss Reserve Accounting and Bank Behavior

Eliana Balla, Morgan J. Rose and Jessie Romero

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RC Balaban (804) 697-8144