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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Federal Reserve Bank"”.
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Public prices - private costs : the Federal Reserve Bank competes with itself
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Centralization or decentralization? A study of the data processing requirements of the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Essays in Country Banking: Case Studies of the First National Bank of Bloomington (Illinois)
… I examine the decision to select locations for Federal Reserve Banks by the Reserve Board Organization Committee in April 1914. I estimate probability choice models for the 37 cities that requested consideration by the committee by relying upon statements of involved persons as proxies. The …
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Three Essays on Macroeconomic and Econometric Analysis of Business Cycle
… components regression method: using the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank National Activity Index (CFNAI) and local economic indicators, local and national factors are extracted by applying the partitioned regression and the principal components method. From these results, a local economic activity …
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Not So Great Expectations: An Analysis of Expectation Determinants and the Predictability of Expectation Errors
In this paper, I use novel survey data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) to analyze expectations of national inflation, national stock market returns, personal credit access, and personal financial wellbeing to test the rational expectations …
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The Evolution of the Federal Reserve's Mandate in Response to the Global Financial Crisis: The Case for Financial Stability
<p>This thesis looks at the evolution of the Federal Reserve’s mandate and regulatory responsibilities as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. The onset of the crisis exposed the financial system to risks that had yet to be identified by the traditional microprudential regulatory framework, …
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Automating the United States payment system
… credit/debit/smart cards, and home banking are scrutinized for their benefits and feasibility. Check collection improvement methods such as electronic check presentment and check truncation are also studied. One particular system offers end-to-end process efficiency improvement by …
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Adulting Children: A Television Series On Growing Up, Getting Out, and Coming Right Back
… post-college. In an analysis presented by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, it was discovered that forty-one percent of new graduates aged twenty-two to twenty-seven are working in fields that don’t even require a college degree. The media often makes light of their inability to penetrate …
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Prospective Reappointment and the Monetary Policy Preferences of the Federal Open Market Committee Members
… investigate the behavioral of the Governors and Bank Presidents at the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We have a hypothesis that the Bank presidents and Governors behave differently. We suppose that the governors of the FOMC which are completing a term of another governor …
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Ability of Agricultural Bankers to Forecast Farm Income and Expenditures
<p>The Federal Reserve System conducts a quarterly survey of agricultural banks. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the ability of bankers to accurately forecast farm income and expenditures of farmers in the Ninth Federal Reserve District. There have been studies to assess the accuracy of …
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Essays on institutional investors, central banks and asset pricing
… such as Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds and the Federal Reserve Bank on the equilibrium equity premium, risk free rate and asset volatility and to analyze the effect of these institutions on risk shifting, portfolio allocation and financial stability. Specific features of institutional investors …
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Three essays on mortgage foreclosures
… property conditions suffer most while homes are bank-owned, though reduced maintenance is also common earlier in the foreclosure process. Since short sales prevent bank ownership entirely, they should result in fewer neighborhood disamenities than foreclosures. The third and final paper, …
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Minority Students in STEM Careers in the U.S. – the Role of AP Calculus
… of Education [DOE], 2014). Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland indicates that students that took advance mathematics in high school received a greater economic return over life-time (James, 2013; Thompson, 2013). This study used correlations and regression tests to determine …
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Three Essays in Lending
… data, Survey of Consumer Finances data from the Federal Reserve Board, to examine changing lending characteristics. Overall, the findings suggest changes in the home purchase behaviors and increases in the gap between households’ desired and outstanding debt levels, for both low income and high …
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An analytical approach to the West German money supply process
… economic experience following the Treasury-Federal Reserve “accord” of 1951 has gradually induced an extensive revival of interest in monetary policy as a viable instrument for influencing aggregate economic activity. Recent evidence indicates that there are significant reasons for …
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The Monetary Theory and Practice of the Federal Reserve, 1914–35
Since its inception in 1913, the US Federal Reserve System (Fed; System) has been home to some of the world’s best minds in law, statistics, economics, and public policy. The collective impact of these individuals has not only influenced the lives of millions in the US, but of billions around the …
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The Euromarket and the making of the transnational network of finance 1959 - 1979
… underwent repeated contestations as politicians, bankers, and economists vested their political ambitions and cultural assumptions in it. The popular, academic, and policy debates challenged the speculative nature of Eurodollars which would destabilise the domestic as well as the international …
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Sterling and the Stability of the International Monetary System, 1944-1971
… with sterling having lost its relevance as reserve currency. However, despite being a secondary reserve currency and having lost importance, sterling was the ‘first line of defence for the dollar’ as contemporaries put it. They frequently stressed the fact that a sterling crisis would have …