Economists

Raymond E. Owens III

Ray Owens was a senior economist and policy advisor in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Owens worked at the Richmond Fed from 1983 to 2022.

Bank Publications

Econ Focus, Fourth Quarter 2021

Trends in Criminal Activity, Crime Reporting, and Public Perceptions

Raymond E. Owens III and Santiago Pinto

Economic Brief, September 2021, No. 21-29b

What Do Recent Studies Say About Crime and Policing? Part 2

Part two of our series examines studies on racial disparities in policing, crime reporting and the effectiveness of training programs.

Raymond E. Owens III and Santiago Pinto

Economic Brief, September 2021, No. 21-29a

What Do Recent Studies Say About Crime and Policing? Part 1

Part one of our two-part Economic Brief examines the impact of crime on communities, the relationship between crime and policing, and how policing affects deterrence.

Raymond E. Owens III and Santiago Pinto

Econ Focus, Fourth Quarter 2017

The Rise and Decline of Petersburg, Va.

As a dominant local employer shrank and then closed, weakened public finances became part of the spiral

Anne A. Burnett, Raymond E. Owens III and Santiago Pinto

Economic Quarterly, Fall 2005

How Well Do Diffusion Indexes Capture Business Cycles? A Spectral Analysis

Raymond E. Owens III and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

Economic Quarterly, Fall 2004

Using Manufacturing Surveys to Assess Economic Conditions

Matthew Harris, Raymond E. Owens III and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

Economic Quarterly, Winter 2004

Accommodating Rising Population in Rural Areas: The Case of Loudoun County, Virginia

Raymond E. Owens III and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

Economic Quarterly, Spring 2001

Using the Federal Funds Futures Market to Predict Monetary Policy Actions

Raymond E. Owens III and Roy H. Webb

Economic Review, Mar/Apr, 1991

Survey Evidence of Tighter Credit Conditions: What Does It Mean?

Raymond E. Owens III and Stacey L. Schreft

Economic Review, Jan/Feb, 1988

Agricultural Summary and Outlook

Raymond E. Owens III

Economic Review, May/Jun, 1987

An Overview of Agricultural Policy . . . Past, Present, and Future

Raymond E. Owens III

Economic Review, Jan/Feb, 1987

The Agricultural Outlook for 1987 . . . Financial Turnaround Unlikely

Raymond E. Owens III

Economic Review, Jan/Feb, 1986

The Agricultural Outlook for 1986 . . . Continued Financial Weakness Seen

Raymond E. Owens III

Economic Review, Jan/Feb, 1985

The Agricultural Outlook for 1985 . . . A Little Promise Seen

Raymond E. Owens III
Working Papers

October 2018, No. 18-16

Distance and Decline: The Case of Petersburg, Virginia

Raymond E. Owens III and Santiago Pinto

February 2017, No. 17-04

Rethinking Detroit

Raymond E. Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

June 2008, No. 08-3

Housing Externalities: Evidence from Spatially Concentrated Urban Revitalization Programs

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte and Raymond E. Owens III

June 2005, No. 05-3

Firm Fragmentation and Urban Patterns

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte and Raymond E. Owens III

June 1999, No. 99-8

Analyzing Firm Location Decisions: Is Public Intervention Justified?

Raymond E. Owens III and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte

May 1994, No. 94-6

Commercial Real Estate Overbuilding in the 1980's: Beyond the Hog Cycle

Raymond E. Owens III

March 1993, No. 93-2

Identifying Credit Crunches

Raymond E. Owens III and Stacey L. Schreft

March 1992, No. 92-1

Identifying Credit Crunches

Stacey L. Schreft and Raymond E. Owens III

May 1991, No. 91-5

Survey Evidence of Tighter Credit Conditions: What Does It Mean?

Stacey L. Schreft and Raymond E. Owens III
Other Work

"Trade Deficits (and Surpluses)." In Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues, vol. 2, edited by Michael Shally-Jensen, pp. 312-321. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
"Trade Surpluses and Deficits." In Battleground: Business, vol. 2, edited by Michael Walden and Peg Thoms, pp. 582-590. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
"Government-Sponsored Enterprises." In Instruments of the Money Market, 7th edition, edited by Timothy Q. Cook and Robert K. LaRoche, pp. 139-155, Richmond, VA: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 1993.
"Farmer Mac and Farm Lending." In Financing Agriculture in the 1990s: Structural Change and Public Policy, Proceedings of the 1990 Meeting of the Federal Reserve Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, pp. 49-55. Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1991.

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