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Research Department Working Papers present statistical or technical research conducted by Boston Fed economists and are intended for publication in professional journals. The intended audience is scholars and informed specialists.


Latest Working Papers from the Research Department

No. 11-17
"Inflation Dynamics When Inflation is Near Zero"
by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, Giovanni P. Olivei, and Geoffrey M. B. Tootell

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No. 11-16
"The Great Recession and Bank Lending to Small Businesses"
by Judit Montoriol-Garriga and J. Christina Wang

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No. 11-15
"Games with Synergistic Preferences"
by Julian C. Jamison

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No. 11-14
"Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence"
by Markus M. Möbius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus, and Tanya S. Rosenblat

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No. 11-13
"Core Competencies, Matching, and the Structure of Foreign Direct Investment"
by Federico J. Díez and Alan C. Spearot

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No. 11-12
"Further Investigations into the Origin of Credit Score Cutoff Rules"
by Ryan Bubb and Alex Kaufman

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No. 11-11
"The Role of Expectations in U.S. Inflation Dynamics"
by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer

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No. 11-10
"Trends in U.S. Family Income Mobility, 1969–2006"
by Katharine Bradbury

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No. 11-9
"Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises"
by Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman

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No. 11-8
"On the Distribution of College Dropouts: Household Wealth and Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk"
by Ali K. Ozdagli and Nicholas Trachter

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No. 11-7
"Customer Recognition and Competition"
by Oz Shy and Rune Stenbacka

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No. 11-6
“House Price Growth When Kids are Teenagers: A Path to Higher Intergenerational Achievement?”
by Daniel Cooper and María José Luengo-Prado

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No. 11-5
“Self-Employment in the Global Economy”
by Federico J. Díez and Ali K. Ozdagli

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No. 11-4
“A Response to Cogley and Sbordone's Comment on 'Closed-Form Estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve with Time-Varying Trend Inflation'”
by Fabià Gumbau-Brisa, Denny Lie, and Giovanni P. Olivei

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No. 11-3
“Estimation of Forward-Looking Relationships in Closed Form: An Application to the New Keynesian Phillips Curve”
by Michelle L. Barnes, Fabià Gumbau-Brisa, Denny Lie, and Giovanni P. Olivei

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No. 11-2
“Explaining Gender-Specific Racial Differences in Obesity Using Biased Self-Reports of Food Intake and Physical Activity”
by Mary A. Burke and Frank W. Heiland

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No. 11-1
“Real Output of Bank Services: What Counts Is What Banks Do, Not What They Own”
by Robert Inklaar and J. Christina Wang

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