Economic Review
The Economic Review is a quarterly research publication
with articles by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City staff on issues of relevance to the Federal Reserve,
including macroeconomics and monetary policy, regional and international economics,
banking, financial markets, and payments systems. For paper copies of previous
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What Is the Optimal Inflation Rate?
Roberto M. Billi and George A. Kahn (Summary
| Article
PDF 407K)
Understanding the Effects of the Merger Boom on Community
Banks
Julapa Jagtiani (Summary |
Article
PDF 447K)
How Is the Rise in National Defense Spending Affecting the Tenth District Economy?
Chad R. Wilkerson and Megan D. Williams
(Summary |
Article
PDF 1,114K)
Will Farmland Values Keep Booming?
Jason Henderson (Summary
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Article
PDF 1,227K)
Maintaining Stability in a Changing
Financial System: Some Lessons Relearned Again?
Thomas M. Hoenig (Summary
| Article
PDF 122K)
Has the Behavior of Inflation and Long-Term Inflation Expectations
Changed?
Todd E. Clark and Taisuke Nakata
(Summary |
Article
PDF 1,024K)
PCE and CPI Inflation Differential: Converting Inflation Forecasts
Craig S. Hakkio
(Summary |
Article
PDF 506K)
Will Rural Prosperity Prevail in 2008?
Jason Henderson and Maria Akers (Summary
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Article
PDF 556K)
Fourth Quarter 2007
Risks of Identity Theft: Can the Market Protect the Payment System?
Stacey L. Schreft (Summary |
Article
PDF 277K)
Industrial Loan Companies: A Growing Industry Sparks a Public Policy
Debate
Kenneth Spong and Eric Robbins
(Summary |
Article
PDF 221K)
How Useful is Okun's Law?
Edward S.
Knotek, II
(Summary |
Article
PDF 364K)
Booms and Busts: The Case of Subprime Mortgages
Edward M. Gramlich
(Summary |
Article
PDF 51K)
Rising Foreclosures in the United States: A Perfect Storm
Kelly D. Edmiston and Roger Zalneraitis
(Summary |
Article
PDF 348K)
Third Quarter 2007
The Role of Money in Monetary Policy: Why Do the Fed and
ECB See It So Differently?
George A. Kahn and Scott Benolkin (Summary |
Article
PDF 294K)
Work and Taxes: Allocation of Time in OECD Countries
Lee Ohanian, Andrea Raffo, and Richard Rogerson
(Summary |
Article
PDF 194K)
The Tenth District's Defining Industries: How Are They
Changing?
Chad R. Wilkerson and Megan D. Williams
(Summary |
Article
PDF 217K)
Nonbanks in the Payments System: Innovation, Competition,
and Risk - A Conference Summary
Richard J. Sullivan and Zhu Wang
(Summary |
Article
PDF 109K)
Risk Management and Nonbank Participation in the U.S.
Retail Payments System
Richard J. Sullivan (Summary | Article
PDF 161K)
A Guide to Aggregate House Price Measures
Jordan Rappaport (Summary | Article
PDF 167K)
The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic
Development
Kelly Edmiston (Summary | Article
PDF 116K)
Communicating a Policy Path: The Next Frontier in Central
Bank Transparency?
George A. Kahn (Summary | Article
PDF 106K)
What Happened to the Gains From Strong Productivity
Growth?
Jonathan L. Willis and Julie Wroblewski (Summary | Article
PDF 111K)
Will Energy Markets Refuel the Rural Economy?
Jason Henderson and Maria Akers (Summary | Article
PDF 585K)