October 2025, No. 25-10
Supervisors anticipate most bank failures with a high degree of accuracy.
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Podcast
Nov. 12, 2025
Daniel Davis talks about the importance of understanding the economies of small towns and rural areas. He also discusses the work that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has done to examine these economies and connect with community leaders, including the recent launch of the Richmond Fed's Center for Rural Economies and Investing in Rural America webinar series. Davis is group vice president for regional economics at the Richmond Fed and director of the center.
Article
November 2025, No. 25-42
A new approach addresses the dynamics of negotiations involving a single proposer and the inherent delays in reaching agreements.
October 2025, No. 25-09
The authors develop a single-proposer noise bargaining game and embed it in a two-sector sovereign default model to find that hard defaults coincide with deeper and more protracted recessions.
October 2025, No. 25-08
Exploring the evolving significance of different production sectors within the U.S. economy since World War II provides methods for estimating and forecasting these shifts.
Fifth District Surveys of Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing Activity
October 28, 2025
Manufacturing activity slowed in October while non-manufacturing activity was flat.
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