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Economic Review
1999

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1st Quarter 2nd Quarter

Progress Toward Price Stability:
A 1998 Inflation Report

C. Alan Garner  
(Summary | Article  PDF 118K)

Monetary Policy and the Well-Being
of the Poor

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer  

(Summary | Article  PDF 308K)


Can U.S. Oil Production Survive the 20th Century?
Russell L. Lamb and Chad R. Wilkerson  

(Summary | Article  PDF 123K)


Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture: The New Rural Landscape and Public Policy
Mark Drabenstott  
(Summary | Article  PDF 84K)

U.S. Agriculture at the Crossroads in 1999
Russell L. Lamb   
(Summary | Article  PDF 205K)

The District Economic Outlook: Responding to Labor Shortages and Overseas Problems
Ricardo C. Gazel and Chad R. Wilkerson    
(Summary | Article  PDF 113K)

How Useful Are Taylor Rules for Monetary Policy?
Sharon Kozicki  
(Summary | Article  PDF 360K)

How Reliable Are Recession Prediction Models?
Andrew J. Filardo  
(Summary | Article  PDF 307K)

Does Faster Loan Growth Lead to Higher Loan Losses?
William R. Keeton  
(Summary | Article  PDF 182K)

Equity for Rural America: From Wall Street to Main Street -- A Conference Summary
Mark Drabenstott and Larry G. Meeker
(Summary | Article  PDF 88K)

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

 
Financial Industry Megamergers and Policy Challenges
Thomas M. Hoenig   
(Summary | Article  PDF 61K)

A Comparison of the CPI and the PCE Price Index
Todd E. Clark   
(Summary | Article  PDF 166K)

Do Consumers Really Want Credit Card Reform?
Kathryn L. Combs and Stacey L. Schreft
(Summary | Article  PDF 98K)

The Value of Interest Rate Smoothing:
How the Private Sector Helps the Federal Reserve

Jeffery D. Amato and Thomas Laubach  

(Summary | Article  PDF 122K)


Where Have All the Packing Plants Gone? The New Meat Geography in Rural America
Mark Drabenstott, Mark Henry,
and Kristen Mitchell    
(Summary | Article  PDF 183K)

New Challenges for Monetary Policy: A Summary of the Bank's 1999 Symposium
Gordon H. Sellon, Jr. and Charmaine R. Buskas   
(Summary | Article  PDF 120K)

Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility
Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler   

(Summary | Article  PDF 120K)


The Outlook for the U.S. Banking Industry: What Does the Experience of the 1980s and 1990s Tell Us?
Kenneth Spong and Richard J. Sullivan   

(Summary | Article  PDF 206K)


Electronic Payments in the U.S. Economy: An Overview
Stuart E. Weiner   
  (Summary | Article  PDF 86K)
   

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