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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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Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis

Volcker, Paul A. - 2009

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

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Did Dodd-Frank miss the mark? : financial experts' and regulators' perspectives on resolution plans

Cho, Edward; Mier, Joel; Jones, Catrina; Bellenger, Danny N. - In: Journal of banking regulation 18 (2017) 1, pp. 80-102

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Discount rate policies of five Federal Reserve Chairmen

Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1996

This paper investigates the discount rate policies of five Federal Reserve chairmen: Martin, Burns, Miller, Volcker and Greenspan. Both in terms of the reasons given for making discount rate changes and the frequency of discount rate changes, the discount rate policies of Martin and Greenspan...

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The Federal Reserve as an informed foreign-exchange trader: 1973-1995

Bordo, Michael D; Humpage, Owen F; Schwartz, Anna J - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2011

If official interventions convey private information useful for price discovery in foreign-exchange markets, then they should have value as a forecast of near-term exchange-rate movements. Using a set of standard criteria, we show that approximately 60 percent of all U.S. foreign-exchange...

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A review of Allan Meltzer's "A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2"

Nelson, Edward - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2011

This paper reviews Allan H. Meltzer's "A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2." This two-book volume covers Federal Reserve policies from 1951 to 1986. The book represents an enormous achievement in synthesizing a great amount of archival information into a historical account grounded on...

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Non-par banking: competition and monopoly in markets for payments services

Stevens, Ed - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1998

Once the Federal Reserve Banks started providing par interbank funds transfers, their check collection service was unnecessary to bring nationwide par check collection in competitive banking markets. The survival of non-par banks probably reflected the absence of competition in the markets where...

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A brief history of the 1987 stock market crash with a discussion of the Federal Reserve response

Carlson, Mark - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2006

The 1987 stock market crash was a major systemic shock. Not only did the prices of many financial assets tumble, but market functioning was severely impaired. This paper reviews the events surrounding the crash and discusses the response of the Federal Reserve, which responded in a number of...

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