Do Firms Have Pricing Power?
Measuring how much ability firms have to pass price increases on to customers is one way to assess economic conditions....
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Business Inflation Expectations Rise Slightly in August
According to the Atlanta Fed's monthly business inflation expectations (BIE) survey, southeastern firms anticipate their unit costs to increase 1.9...
Business Inflation Expectations Rise Slightly in August
According to the Atlanta Fed's monthly business inflation expectations (BIE) survey, southeastern firms anticipate their unit costs to increase 1.9...
Banks Ease Lending on Business, Auto Loans
Financial Update, Volume 25, Number 3. Standards on a range of loans were eased in the second quarter, according to...
The (Unfortunately?) Consistent Record of the Recovery: Duy and Thoma Respond
Analyzing economic trends and conditions necessarily requires operating from a certain set of assumptions--assumptions that can themselves spur a lively...
The U.S. Economic Outlook and Implications for Latin America
Atlanta Fed President and CEO Dennis Lockhart speaks to the Latin American Chamber of Commerce and the World Affairs Council...
VendorDirt Update: Current Events Quiz
2012 has been a year of fast-paced Weirdness, with ABC News reporting on eight King-Sized financial scandals in just the...
The Devil’s in the Tail: Residential Mortgage Finance and the U.S. Treasury
W. Scott Frame, Larry D. Wall, and Lawrence J. White. Working Paper 2012-12 (August). What form the U.S. government's role...
Finding a Reasonable Definition of Commercially Reasonable
Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code states that banks must adopt commercially reasonable security measures to protect its commercial...
If Data is the New Oil, Here is everything you need to know about mining…
This whole “Big data” thing is touted as the new black, the new oil, the new Bradley Wiggins… The Big...
