The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has released the Research Review July 2009 – December 2009 with summaries of:
Public Policy Discussion Papers:
- Why Don’t Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures, and Securitization
- Securitization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Lender Cutoff Rule
- Reinvigorating Springfield’s Economy: Lessons from Resurgent Cities
- Did Easy Credit Lead to Overspending? Home Equity Borrowing and Household Behavior in the Early 2000s
- A TIPS Scorecard: Are TIPS Accomplishing What They Were Supposed to Accomplish? Can They Be Improved?
- Impending Spending Bust? The Role of Housing Wealth as Borrowing Collateral
- The 2008 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice
- Jobs in Springfield, Massachusetts: Understanding and Remedying the Causes of Low Resident Employment Rates
The TIPS paper has been discussed on PrefBlog.
Working Papers
- Trends in U.S. Family Income Mobility, 1967–2004
- Real Estate Brokers and Commission: Theory and Calibrations
- Efficient Organization of Production: Nested versus Horizontal Outsourcing
- Estimating the Border Effect: Some New Evidence
- Social and Private Learning with Endogenous Decision Timing
- Housing and Debt Over the Life Cycle and Over the Business Cycle
- Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment, and Stock Returns
- Inflation Persistence
- Closed-Form Estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve with Time-Varying Trend Inflation
- Estimating Demand in Search Markets: The Case of Online Hotel Bookings
- Multiple Selves in Intertemporal Choices
- The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
- Productivity, Welfare, and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
- State-Dependent Pricing and Optimal Monetary Policy
- Seeds to Succeed? Sequential Giving to Public Projects
Public Policy Briefs
- A Proposal to Help Distressed Homeowners: A Government Payment-Sharing Plan