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Sizing Up Job Creation: Are Small Businesses Truly The Engine Of Job Growth? It Depends On How You Look At It
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the nation struggles to recover from the Great Recession, many policymakers view small businesses as the best hope for increased hiring and renewed prosperity. Again and again, in speeches and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Consumer Search And Firm Growth
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a simple model of search and matching between consumers and firms. The firm size distribution has a Pareto-like right tail if the population of consumers grows at a positive...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners Mobility
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Some commentators have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper uses an estimated structural model to argue that the option to move in and out of the parental home is an important insurance channel against labor market risk for youths who do not...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Technical Notes On Facts And Myths About The Financial Crisis Of 2008
October 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper is intended to supplement Chari, Christiano, and Kehoe (2008) by providing additional details of where the data are obtained, how the series are constructed where appropriate, and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Business Start-Ups And Productive Efficiency
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies efficient allocation of resources in an economy in which agents are initially heterogeneous with regard to their wealth levels and whether they have ideas or not. An agent with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Taxation, Aggregates And The Household
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. They restrict the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
On The Mechanics Of Firm Growth
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Given a common technology for replicating blueprints, high-quality blueprints will be replicated more quickly than low-quality blueprints. If quality begets quality, and firms are identified with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Sales And The Real Effects Of Monetary Policy
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the data, a sizable fraction of price changes are temporary price reductions referred to as sales. Existing models include no role for sales. Hence, when confronted with data in which a large...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Time Inconsistency And Free-riding In A Monetary Union
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In monetary unions, a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free-rider problem in the setting of non-monetary policies. The free-rider problem leads union members...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Prizes And Patents: Using Market Signals To Provide Incentives For Innovations
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovative activities have public good characteristics in the sense that the cost of producing, say, the first unit of a new good is high compared to the cost of producing subsequent units....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Facts And Myths About The Financial Crisis Of 2008
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The United States is indisputably undergoing a financial crisis and is perhaps headed for a deep recession. Here the authors examine three claims about the way the financial crisis is affecting...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run And Long-Run Evidence From The Closure Of The Cincinnati Post
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
Time Consistent Monetary Policy With Endogenous Price Rigidity
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author characterizes time consistent equilibrium in an economy with price rigidity and an optimizing monetary authority operating under discretion. Firms have the option to increase their...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
If Exchange Rates Are Random Walks, Then Almost Everything We Say About Monetary Policy Is Wrong
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The key question asked by standard monetary models used for policy analysis is, how do changes in short-term interest rates affect the economy? All of the standard models imply that such changes...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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The Advantage Of Transparency In Monetary Policy Instruments
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Monetary policy instruments differ in tightness - how closely they are linked to inflation - and transparency - how easily they can be monitored. Tightness is always desirable in a monetary policy...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Software
What is a Dollar Worth? 1 (Mobile)
October 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Inflation calculator.This calculator uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate inflation comparisons from 1913 to present. The CPI is a measure of the average change in prices over time in...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Software
What is a Dollar Worth? 1 (Mobile)
October 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Inflation calculator.This calculator uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate inflation comparisons from 1913 to present. The CPI is a measure of the average change in prices over time in...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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White Papers
The Advantage Of Transparency In Monetary Policy Instruments
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Monetary policy instruments differ in tightness - how closely they are linked to inflation - and transparency - how easily they can be monitored. Tightness is always desirable in a monetary policy...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
If Exchange Rates Are Random Walks, Then Almost Everything We Say About Monetary Policy Is Wrong
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The key question asked by standard monetary models used for policy analysis is, how do changes in short-term interest rates affect the economy? All of the standard models imply that such changes...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Time Consistent Monetary Policy With Endogenous Price Rigidity
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The author characterizes time consistent equilibrium in an economy with price rigidity and an optimizing monetary authority operating under discretion. Firms have the option to increase their...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Do Newspapers Matter? Short-Run And Long-Run Evidence From The Closure Of The Cincinnati Post
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Facts And Myths About The Financial Crisis Of 2008
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The United States is indisputably undergoing a financial crisis and is perhaps headed for a deep recession. Here the authors examine three claims about the way the financial crisis is affecting...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Prizes And Patents: Using Market Signals To Provide Incentives For Innovations
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Innovative activities have public good characteristics in the sense that the cost of producing, say, the first unit of a new good is high compared to the cost of producing subsequent units....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Time Inconsistency And Free-riding In A Monetary Union
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In monetary unions, a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free-rider problem in the setting of non-monetary policies. The free-rider problem leads union members...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Sales And The Real Effects Of Monetary Policy
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In the data, a sizable fraction of price changes are temporary price reductions referred to as sales. Existing models include no role for sales. Hence, when confronted with data in which a large...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
On The Mechanics Of Firm Growth
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Given a common technology for replicating blueprints, high-quality blueprints will be replicated more quickly than low-quality blueprints. If quality begets quality, and firms are identified with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Taxation, Aggregates And The Household
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. They restrict the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Business Start-Ups And Productive Efficiency
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies efficient allocation of resources in an economy in which agents are initially heterogeneous with regard to their wealth levels and whether they have ideas or not. An agent with...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Technical Notes On Facts And Myths About The Financial Crisis Of 2008
October 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper is intended to supplement Chari, Christiano, and Kehoe (2008) by providing additional details of where the data are obtained, how the series are constructed where appropriate, and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper uses an estimated structural model to argue that the option to move in and out of the parental home is an important insurance channel against labor market risk for youths who do not...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners Mobility
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Some commentators have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Consumer Search And Firm Growth
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a simple model of search and matching between consumers and firms. The firm size distribution has a Pareto-like right tail if the population of consumers grows at a positive...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
-
White Papers
Sizing Up Job Creation: Are Small Businesses Truly The Engine Of Job Growth? It Depends On How You Look At It
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As the nation struggles to recover from the Great Recession, many policymakers view small businesses as the best hope for increased hiring and renewed prosperity. Again and again, in speeches and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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