Innovation and Regulation in Financial Markets” was the topic of the seventh annual Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum, held on November 30, 2007. This event, sponsored by the Bank’s Research Department, brought together economic scholars, policymakers, and market economists to discuss and debate...

This article presents an update of an article first published in the March/April 2000 Business Review, which presented data from the 1995 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances. Loretta Mester, author of the original article, has compiled information from the 1998 survey to keep readers...

Loretta Mester summarizes the discussion at the 2006 Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum

“Fiscal Imbalance: Problems, Solutions, and Implications” was the topic of the fifth annual Philadelphia Fed Policy Forum held on December 2, 2005. This event, sponsored by the Bank’s Research Department, brought together economic scholars, policymakers, and market economists to discuss...

In “Changes in the Use of Electronic Means of Payment: 1995-2004,” Loretta Mester has compiled information from the recently released 2004 Survey of Consumer Finances. She updates statistics indicating how the usages of various means of electronic payment have changed between 1995 and 2004....

This article updates the tables originally published in an article by Loretta Mester in the March/April 2000 Business Review and subsequently updated in the Second Quarter 2006 issue.

The Federal Reserve System’s 2007 Community Development Research Conference was held in Washington, D.C., on March 29-30, 2007. This conference was the fifth in a biennial series that the Federal Reserve System established in 1999. In “Financing Community Development: Learning from the Past,...