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Economic Brief

December 2015, No. 15-12

Did the Durbin Amendment Reduce Merchant Costs? Evidence from Survey Results

Renee Haltom and Zhu Wang

November 2015, No. 15-11

Why Are Women Leaving the Labor Force?

Maria E. Canon, Helen Fessenden and Marianna Kudlyak

October 2015, No. 15-10

Calculating the Natural Rate of Interest: A Comparison of Two Alternative Approaches

Thomas A. Lubik and Christian Matthes

September 2015, No. 15-09

Inflation Targeting: Could Bad Luck Explain Persistent One-Sided Misses?

Andreas Hornstein, Joe Johnson and Karl Rhodes

August 2015, No. 15-08

Living Wills for Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Some Expected Benefits and Challenges

Arantxa Jarque and David A. Price

July 2015, No. 15-07

Buyers' Ability and Willingness to Shop Around: An Explanation for Price Dispersion

Karl Rhodes and Nicholas Trachter

June 2015, No. 15-06

Did Banking Reforms of the Early 1990s Fail? Lessons from Comparing Two Banking Crises

Eliana Balla, Helen Fessenden, Edward S. Prescott and John R. Walter

May 2015, No. 15-05

Discount Window Lending: Policy Trade-offs and the 1985 BoNY Computer Failure

Huberto M. Ennis and David A. Price

April 2015, No. 15-04

Nominal GDP: Target or Benchmark?

Robert L. Hetzel

March 2015, No. 15-03

Explaining the Decline in the Number of Banks since the Great Recession

Roisin McCord, Edward S. Prescott and Tim Sablik

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RC Balaban (804) 697-8144