FRBSF Economic Letter

FRBSF Economic Letter Index

1999 Issues

• Financial Modernization and Regulation
  99-38; December 31, 1999; Fred Furlong and Simon Kwan
  
  
• Is There a Case for an Asian Monetary Fund?
  99-37; December 17, 1999; Andrew K. Rose
  
  
• Why Attack a Currency Board?
  99-36; November 26, 1999; Kenneth Kasa
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
  
• Are We Globalized Yet?
  99-35; November 19, 1999; Charles Engel
  
  
• Rates of Return from Social Security
  99-34; November 12, 1999; Kevin Lansing
  
  
• Risks in the Economic Outlook
  99-33; October 29, 1999; Robert T. Parry
  
  
• Rising Bank Risk?
  99-32; October 22, 1999; Fred Furlong and Simon Kwan
  (Western Banking)
  
  
• Living Wage Ordinances
  99-31; October 15, 1999; Rob Valletta
  
  
• Depreciations and Recessions
  99-30; October 8, 1999; Ramon Moreno
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
  
• Dollarization in Argentina
  99-29; September 24, 1999; Mark M. Spiegel
  
  
• Early Warning Indicators of Banking Sector Distress
  99-28; September 17, 1999; Michael Hutchison
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
  
• Projecting Budget Surpluses
  99-27; September 10, 1999; Carl E. Walsh
  
  
• Who Has Benefited from California's Recovery?
  99-26; September 3, 1999; Mary C. Daly and Heather N. Royer
  
  
• A New View on Cost Savings in Bank Mergers
  99-25; August 20, 1999; Simon H. Kwan and James A. Wilcox
  
  
• Hot and Cold Real Estate Markets in the San Francisco Bay Area
  99-24; August 6, 1999; John Krainer
  
  
• The Basel Proposal for a New Capital Adequacy Framework
  99-23; July 30, 1999; Jose A. Lopez
  (Western Banking)
  
  
• Recent Research on Job Stability and Security
  99-22; July 23, 1999; Rob Valletta
  
  
• Supply Shocks and the Conduct of Monetary Policy
  99-21; July 2, 1999; Bharat Trehan
  
  
• Understanding the Social Security Debate
  99-20; June 25, 1999; Mary Daly
  
  
• Using CAMELS Ratings to Monitor Bank Conditions
  99-19; June 11, 1999; Jose A. Lopez
  
  
• Output and Inflation: A 100-Year Perspective
  99-18; May 28, 1999; Kevin Lansing and Jeffrey Thalhammer
  
  
• Bank of Japan Purchases of Risky Assets: Lessons from Colonial America
  99-17; May 21, 1999; Mark M. Spiegel
  
  
• Changes in the Business Cycle
  99-16; May 14, 1999; Carl E. Walsh
  
  
• Employment and Wages in California's Financial Services Sector
  99-15; April 30, 1999; Rob Valletta
  
  
• The Shrinking of Japanese Branch Business Lending in California
  99-14; April 23, 1999; Elizabeth S. Laderman
  (Western Banking)
  
  
• Monetary Policy and Monetary Institutions
  99-13; April 16, 1999; Glenn D. Rudebusch
  
  
• Time for a Tobin Tax?
  99-12; April 9, 1999; Kenneth Kasa
  
  
• Dealing with Currency Crises
  99-11; April 2, 1999; Ramon Moreno
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
  
• Monetary Policy and the Great Crash of 1929: A Bursting Bubble or Collapsing Fundamentals?
  99-10; March 26, 1999; Timothy Cogley
  
  

• Economic Activity and Inflation
  99-09; March 12, 1999; Bharat Trehan
  

• How Did the Economy Surprise Us in 1998?
  99-08; March 5, 1999; Glenn D. Rudebusch
  

• How Frequently Should Banks Be Examined?
  99-07; February 26, 1999; Jose A. Lopez
  
  
• Distribution and Employment Impacts of Raising the Minimum Wage
  99-06; February 19, 1999; Kenneth A. Couch
  
  
• A Better CPI
  99-05; February 5, 1999; Alison Wallace and Brian Motley
  
  
• The Goals of U.S. Monetary Policy
  99-04; January 29, 1999; John P. Judd and Glenn D. Rudebusch
  
  
• Small Business Lending Patterns in California
  99-03; January 22, 1999; John Beauchamp and John Krainer
  (Western Banking)
  
  
• East Asia's Impact on Regional Growth in California
  99-02; January 15, 1999; Mary Daly
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
  
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
  99-01; January 1, 1999

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