Boston Fed Releases 2H09 Research Review

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

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