Business contacts remain generally optimistic about the economy as they look ahead two to three years. In the near term,...

Economists constantly scrutinize the many moving parts of the U.S. economy, and the Atlanta Fed recently hosted a conference that...

Atlanta Fed President and CEO Dennis Lockhart, in a September 23 speech to the Louise Blouin Foundation in New York...

Hirbod Assa, Amal Dabbous, and Nikolay Gospodinov. Working Paper 2013-8 (September). The authors incorporate a staggered price feature into the...

Anastasios G. Karantounias. Working Paper 2013-7 (September). Examining optimal capital and labor income taxation in a business cycle model where...

Zheng Liu, Jianjun Miao, and Tao Zha. Working Paper 2013-6 (September). Integrating the housing market and the labor market in...

Looking for some good reading material for your economics students? EconSouth, an Atlanta Fed publication, provides plenty of easy-to-digest stories...

The Atlanta Fed's sticky-price consumer price index (CPI)--a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly--rose 1.8 percent (annualized)...

With the struggles of the employment sector, the labor force participation rate (commonly known as the LFPR) has become a...

No one expects employment to return to prerecession levels any time soon, but the job market in the Southeast has...