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Why use debit instead of credit? : consumer choice in a trillion-dollar market

Zinman, Jonathan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Debit cards are overtaking credit cards as the most prevalent form of electronic payment at the point of sale, yet the determinants of a ubiquitous consumer choice - "debit or credit?" - have received relatively little scrutiny. Several stylized facts suggest that debit-card use is driven by...

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Job search behavior over the business cycle

Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Sahin, Aysegul; Patterson, Christina - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

We create a novel measure of job search effort starting in 1994 by exploiting the overlap between the Current Population Survey and the American Time Use Survey. We examine the cyclical behavior of aggregate job search effort using time series and cross-state variation and find that it is...

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Why did the average duration of unemployment become so much longer?

Mukoyama, Toshihiko (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … in the generosity and coverage of unemployment insurance. We find that changes in the composition of the labor force and … institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and …

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Markov switching in disaggregate unemployment rates

Chauvet, Marcelle (contributor); Juhn, Chinhui (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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New directions for understanding systemic risk : a report on a conference cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the National Academy of Sciences May 18 - 19, 2006

Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2007

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Trading risk and volatility in interest rate swap spreads

Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...