FRBSF Economic Letter

2004 Issues

• After the Asian Financial Crisis: Can Rapid Credit Expansion Sustain Growth?
  Valderrama 2004-38, December 24 (PDF - 49KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Productivity Growth and the Retail Sector
  Doms 2004-37, December 17 (PDF - 72KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• What Determines the Credit Spread?
  Krainer 2004-36, December 10 (PDF - 98KB)
• October 6, 1979
  Walsh 2004-35, December 3 (PDF - 79KB)
• Outsourcing by Financial Services Firms: The Supervisory Response
  Lopez 2004-34, November 26 (PDF - 49KB)
• Easing Out of the Bank of Japan's Monetary Easing Policy
  Spiegel 2004-33, November 19 (PDF - 73KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Does Locale Affect R&D Productivity? The Case of Pharmaceuticals
  Kyle 2004-32, November 12 (PDF - 50KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• Reflections on China's Economy
  Yellen 2004-31, November 5 (PDF - 63KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Inflation-Induced Valuation Errors in the Stock Market
  Lansing 2004-30, October 29 (PDF - 189KB)
• Consumer Sentiment and the Media
  Doms 2004-29, October 22 (PDF - 88KB)
• Gauging the Market's Expectations about Monetary Policy
  Kwan 2004-28, October 8 (PDF - 31KB)
• House Prices and Fundamental Value
  Krainer, Wei 2004-27, October 1 (PDF - 67KB)
• Supervising Interest Rate Risk Management
  Lopez 2004-26, September 17 (PDF - 47KB)
• Exchange Rate Movements and the U.S. International Balance Sheet
  Cavallo 2004-25, September 10 (PDF - 55KB)
• City or Country: Where Do Businesses Use the Internet?
  Forman, Goldfarb, Greenstein 2004-24, September 3 (PDF - 138KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• Two Measures of Employment: How Different Are They?
  Wu 2004-23, August 27 (PDF - 73KB)
• Measuring the Costs of Exchange Rate Volatility
  Bergin 2004-22, August 20 (PDF - 45KB)
• Does a Fall in the Dollar Mean Higher U.S. Consumer Prices?
  Valderrama 2004-21, August 13 (PDF - 45KB)
• Monetary and Financial Integration: Evidence from the EMU
  Spiegel 2004-20, August 6 (PDF - 58KB)
• The Computer Evolution
  Valletta, MacDonald 2004-19, July 23 (PDF - 86KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• The Productivity and Jobs Connection: The Long and the Short Run of It
  Walsh 2004-18, July 16 (PDF - 104KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• New Keynesian Models and Their Fit to the Data
  Dennis 2004-17, July 9 (PDF - 104KB)
• Has the CRA Increased Lending for Low-Income Home Purchases?
  Laderman 2004-16, June 25 (PDF - 54KB)
• Banking Consolidation
  Kwan 2004-15, June 18 (PDF - 50KB)
• Policy Applications of a Global Macroeconomic Model
  Dennis, Lopez 2004-14, June 11 (PDF - 47KB)
• Interest Rates and Monetary Policy: Conference Summary
  Dennis, Wu 2004-13, June 4 (PDF - 48KB)
• Globalization: Threat or Opportunity for the U.S. Economy?
  Parry 2004-12, May 21 (PDF - 38KB)
• Can International Patent Protection Help a Developing Country Grow?
  Valderrama 2004-11, May 14 (PDF - 45KB)
• Workplace Practices and the New Economy
  Black, Lynch 2004-10, April 16 (PDF - 33KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• Do Differences in Countries' Capital Composition Matter?
  Wilson 2004-09, April 9 (PDF - 52KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• Understanding Deflation
  Wu 2004-08, April 2 (PDF - 53KB)
• Technology, Productivity, and Public Policy
  Daly, Williams 2004-07, March 12 (PDF - 51KB)
  (CSIP Notes)
• Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises with Collective Action Clauses
  Kletzer 2004-06, February 20 (PDF - 47KB)
• Precautionary Policies
  Walsh 2004-05, February 13 (PDF - 51KB)
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
  Part 4: How does the Fed decide the appropriate setting for the policy instrument?
  2004-04, February 6 (PDF - 46KB)
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
  Part 3: How does monetary policy affect the U.S. economy?
  2004-03, January 30 (PDF - 48KB)
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
  Part 2: What are the goals of U.S. monetary policy?
  2004-02, January 23 (PDF - 49KB)
• U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
  Part 1: How is the Fed structured and what are its policy tools?
  2004-01, January 16 (PDF - 49KB

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