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Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri

Gershenson, Seth; Hayes, Michael S. - 2016

We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed … black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates compare Ferguson-area schools to … absence increased by five percent in Ferguson-area schools. Impacts were concentrated in elementary schools and at the bottom …

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Short-run externalities of civic unrest : evidence from Ferguson, Missouri

Gershenson, Seth; Hayes, Michael S. - 2016

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Police shootings, civic unrest and student achievement : evidence from Ferguson

Gershenson, Seth; Hayes, Michael S. - In: Journal of economic geography 18 (2018) 3, pp. 663-685

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Does the Beige Book move financial markets?

Zavodny, Madeline; Ginther, Donna K. - 2003

About two weeks prior to each FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve releases a description of economic activity in a document called the Beige Book. The authors examine whether the descriptive content of the Beige Book affects asset prices. The results indicate that more positive Beige Book reports...

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New economy - new policy rules?

Bullard, James; Schaling, Eric - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

The U.S. economy appears to have experienced a pronounced shift toward higher productivity over the last five years or so. We wish to understand the implications of such shifts for the structure of optimal monetary policy rules in simple dynamic economies. Accordingly, we begin with a standard...

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Forecasting and modeling the U.S. economy in 1986-88

Roberds, William; Todd, Richard M. - In: Quarterly Review (1987) Win, pp. 7-20

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No relief in sight for the U.S. economy

Runkle, David E. - In: Quarterly Review (1992) Fall, pp. 13-20

For at least the next two years, the U.S. economy will grow more slowly than it has on average since World War II. This is the forecast of a Bayesian vector autoregression model developed and used by researchers at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. The model's previous forecast—of a very...

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The Great Inflation of the 1970s

Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2004

Was the high inflation of the 1970s mostly due to incomplete information about the structure of the economy (an unavoidable mistake as suggested by Orphanides, 2000)? Or, to weak reaction to expected inflation and/or excessive policy activism that led to indeterminacies (a policy mistake, a...

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What will homeland security cost?

Hobijn, Bart - In: Economic Policy Review (2002) Nov, pp. 21-33

The increased spending on security by the public and private sectors in response to September 11 could have important effects on the U.S. economy. Sizable government expenditures, for example, could trigger a rise in the cost of capital and wages and a reduction in investment and employment in...

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Asia crisis postmortem: where did the money go and did the United States benefit?

Wincoop, Eric van; Yi, Kei-Mu - In: Economic Policy Review (2000) Sep, pp. 51-70

The Asia crisis was originally expected to affect the U.S. economy adversely, mainly through reduced exports to, and increased imports from, the crisis countries. However, U.S. GDP growth in 1998, at 4.3 percent, was surprisingly strong. This article examines the effect of the crisis on the U.S....

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