2002 FRBSF Economic Letter Index

Current Issues

• Financial Issues in the Pacific Basin Region: Conference Summary
  Glick 2002-38, December 27 (PDF - 72KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
  
• Bank Security Prices and Market Discipline
  Kwan 2002-37, December 20 (PDF - 53KB)
  
• The Promise and Limits of Market Discipline in Banking
  Kwan 2002-36, December 13 (PDF - 61KB)
  
• Recent Trends in Unemployment Duration
  Valletta 2002-35, November 22 (PDF - 84KB)
  
• Riding the IT Wave: Surging Productivity Growth in the West
  Daly 2002-34, November 15 (PDF - 71KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Productivity in the Twelfth District
  Wilson 2002-33, November 8 (PDF - 106KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Stock Market Volatility
  Krainer 2002-32, October 25 (PDF - 96KB)
  (Western Banking)
• Learning from Argentina’s Crisis
  Moreno 2002-31, October 18 (PDF - 66KB)
• Setting the Interest Rate
  Marquis 2002-30, October 11 (PDF - 72KB)
• Can the Phillips Curve Help Forecast Inflation?
  Lansing 2002-29, October 4 (PDF - 82KB)
• Japan Passes Again on Fundamental Financial Reform
  Cargill 2002-28, September 27 (PDF - 53KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Why Do Americans Still Write Checks?
  Gowrisankaran 2002-27, September 20 (PDF - 62KB)
• The Role of Fiscal Policy
  Walsh 2002-26, September 6 (PDF - 82KB)
• Argentina's Currency Crisis: Lessons for Asia
  Spiegel 2002-25, August 23 (PDF - 52KB)
• On the Move: California Employment Law and High-Tech Development
  Valletta 2002-24, August 16 (PDF - 64KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Technical Change and the Dispersion of Wages
  Trehan 2002-23, August 9 (PDF - 64KB)
• Using Chain-Weighted NIPA Data
  Jones 2002-22, August 2 (PDF - 64KB)
• Trends in the Concentration of Bank Deposits: The Northwest
  Laderman 2002-21, July 26 (PDF - 64KB)
  (Western Banking)
• Productivity in Heart Attack Treatments
  Gowrisankaran 2002-20, July 5 (PDF - 70KB)
• Towards a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism
  Spiegel 2002-19, June 28 (PDF - 49KB)
• Country Crises and Corporate Failures: Lessons for Prevention and Management?
  Glick 2002-18, June 14 (PDF - 52KB)
• Reforming China's Banking System
  Moreno 2002-17, May 31 (PDF - 54KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Searching for Value in the U.S. Stock Market
  Lansing 2002-16, May 24 (PDF - 79KB)
• Off-Site Monitoring of Bank Holding Companies
  Krainer and Lopez 2002-15, May 17 (PDF - 28KB)
• Deposit Insurance Reform—When Half a Loaf is Better
  Furlong and Kwan 2002-14, May 10 (PDF - 90KB)
• House Price Dynamics and the Business Cycle
  Krainer 2002-13, May 3 (PDF - 90KB)
• Is There a Credit Crunch?
  Kwan 2002-12, April 26 (PDF - 90KB)
  (Western Banking)
• Macroeconomic Models for Monetary Policy
  Rudebusch and Wu 2002-11, April 19 (PDF - 55KB)
• Inferring Policy Objectives from Policy Actions
  Dennis 2002-10, April 5 (PDF - 53KB)
• What's Behind the Low U.S. Personal Saving Rate?
  Marquis 2002-09, March 29 (PDF - 67KB)
• The Changing Budget Picture
  Walsh 2002-08, March 22 (PDF - 85KB)
• Predicting When the Economy Will Turn
  Loungani and Trehan 2002-07, March 15 (PDF - 68KB)
• Recession in the West: Not a Rerun of 1990-1991
  Daly and Hsueh 2002-06, March 8 (PDF - 75KB)
  (Regional Report)
• ETC (embodied technological change), etc.
  Wilson 2002-05, March 1 (PDF - 51KB)
• Profile of a Recession—The U.S. and California
  Daly and Furlong 2002-04, February 22 (PDF - 72KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Is There a Role for International Policy Coordination?
  Bergin 2002-03, February 8 (PDF - 52KB)
• What Is Operational Risk?
  Lopez 2002-02, January 25 (PDF - 70KB)
  (Western Banking)
• Competition and Regulation in the Airline Industry
  Gowrisankaran 2002-01, January 18 (PDF - 61KB)
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