Economic Brief

A new measure of labor market tightness could help produce more accurate forecasts of wage growth.

The Understanding America Study examines financial and in-kind transfers people have given to and/or received from friends and family.

Employer-reported data through 2023 reveal a divergence in postpandemic commuting patterns across four large metropolitan areas within the Fifth District.

Analyzing the gap between the actual and natural Beveridge curves gives policymakers a better sense of how much stabilization policy can accomplish.

One model suggests that the optimal unemployment insurance program would be set up pretty close to what the U.S. currently has.

With the potential of artificial intelligence to raise trend productivity growth, it is illuminating to revisit Al Broaddus' contributions to late 1990s FOMC discussions.

Funding concentration seems to play a significant role in how effective CDFIs are in fulfilling widespread change in communities.

Reserve-demand estimation is central to monetary policy implementation but tricky in practice. This discusses a proposal that could improve it.

Bank failures are almost always preceded by weak fundamentals. Depositor panics are rarely the root cause.

Three separate models of trend inflation all signaled incipient inflation in 2020, but they currently all offer different assessments.