Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Fed’s Tarullo presses regulators for speedy reforms
Federal Reserve governor Tarullo urges Basel Committee to implement ‘Sifi surcharge’ within a year; Boston Fed president Rosengren says surcharge alone not enough
Fed presidents back unemployment offensive
Minneapolis and Boston Fed presidents call for aggressive monetary policy to tackle lethargic unemployment rate
Boston Fed paper lauds survey data over rational assumptions for macro models
Research published by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston finds the performance of DSGE models is enhanced by introducing survey data on inflation, unemployment and interest rates
Racial equality boosted by deregulation in US, paper says
Banking sector policies that facilitated competition helped increase the black population’s relative wages in the US, but only in racially biased states
Boston Fed paper investigates uncertainty in interbank markets
Research examines role of uncertainty in causing the collapse of interbank lending markets; finds government intervention to provide information may help to restart lending
Regional Fed presidents express fears over economic recovery
Charles Evans and Eric Rosengren warn about struggling economic recovery; focus on employment figures as key indicator of persistent problems in the US
Boston Fed continues research into payments
Researcher Scott Schuh adds to 2010 research into payments; finds rising cost of debit cards reduces their use
Boston Fed paper evaluates impact of accounting standards on institutions
Boston Fed researcher finds that implementing fair-value accounting may not necessarily provide financial statement users with more transparent and useful reporting
Boston Fed investigates effects of credit scores on payment choice
Discussion paper finds evidence to back anecdotes that debit card use is negatively impacted by poor credit scores
Boston Fed analyses US developments in mobile payments
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston paper charts rise of use of electronic banking for individuals in the US
Fed promotes directors on district boards
Federal Reserve announces string of changes to chair and deputy chair of regional Fed board of directors for 2012
High unemployment not structural: Boston Fed’s Rosengren
Boston Federal Reserve president Eric Rosengren says high levels of unemployment in US unlikely to be structural
Boston Fed paper reviews Argentina's economic collapse
Boston Federal Reserve study shows higher input costs exacerbated macroeconomic downturn in Argentina during the early 2000s
College drop-out rate is strongly correlated to income: Boston Fed
Boston Federal Reserve study shows poor students are 27% more likely to drop out of college than wealthier students
Boston Fed’s Rosengren clarifies state of US recovery
Boston Federal Reserve president Eric Rosengren says US recovery is not in a soft patch, but in a consistently weak state
Boston Fed's Rosengren: clarity on Basel III capital buffers paramount
Boston Federal Reserve president Eric Rosengren says definition of capital in Basel III rules will be crucial in ensuring banks are well-capitalised in the event of future crises
Consumers move back to cash payments: Boston Fed paper
Boston Federal Reserve study finds evidence of decline in credit and debit card usage and increase in cash payments during financial crisis
Boston Fed paper on measures of bank output
Boston Federal Reserve study finds bias in methodology statistical agencies’ measurement of bank output
Boston Fed’s Rosengren parries inflationary fears
Boston Federal Reserve president Eric Rosengren says latest quantitative easing programme is not inflationary
Federal Reserve – Beige Book (January 2011)
Reports from twelve districts identify slight improvement in labour markets
Boston Fed surveys evidence of a credit crunch
Boston Federal Reserve policy brief attempts to understand how supply and demand of bank business loans changed in period following Lehman Brothers’ collapse
Boston Fed finds evidence of sticky wages
Boston Federal Reserve paper shows that wage adjustments in the United States are very infrequent
Boston Fed names new first vice president
Boston Federal Reserve appoints Federal Reserve Information Technology vice president Kenneth Montgomery as first vice president
Beige Book points to gloomy outlook for US economy
Reports from twelve regional Federal Reserve districts add further weight to fears of double dip; say weakness in housing market tempering recovery