Staff Reports
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2015 Staff Reports

The Cost of Capital of the Financial Sector
Tobias Adrian, Evan Friedman, and Tyler Muir
December  Number 755

Floor Systems and the Friedman Rule: The Fiscal Arithmetic of Open Market Operations
Todd Keister, Antoine Martin, and James McAndrews
December  Number 754

Competition, Reach for Yield, and Money Market Funds
Gabriele La Spada
December  Number 753
Revised January 2017

The Effectiveness of Nonstandard Monetary Policy Measures: Evidence from Survey Data
Carlo Altavilla and Domenico Giannone
December  Number 752

Exploiting the Monthly Data Flow in Structural Forecasting
Domenico Giannone, Francesca Monti, and Lucrezia Reichlin
December  Number 751

News Shocks, Monetary Policy, and Foreign Currency Positions
Bianca De Paoli and Hande Küçük
December  Number 750

Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates Following the Great Recession
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz
December  Number 749
Revised September 2016

Personal Experiences and Expectations about Aggregate Outcomes
Theresa Kuchler and Basit Zafar
October  Number 748

Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice
Erik G. Hurst and Benjamin W. Pugsley
October  Number 747

The Affordable Care Act and the Labor Market: A First Look
Maxim Pinkovskiy
October  Number 746

An Interest Rate Rule to Uniquely Implement the Optimal Equilibrium in a Liquidity Trap
Fernando Duarte and Anna Zabai
October  Number 745

Evaluating the Information in the Federal Reserve Stress Tests
Mark Flannery, Beverly Hirtle, and Anna Kovner
October  Number 744
Revised August 2016

On the Scale of Financial Intermediaries
Previous title: "The Cyclicality of Leverage"
Tobias Adrian, Nina Boyarchenko, and Hyun Song Shin
October  Number 743
Revised December 2016

Macroprudential Policy: Case Study from a Tabletop Exercise
Tobias Adrian, Patrick de Fontnouvelle, Emily Yang, and Andrei Zlate
September  Number 742
Revised December 2015

Interest Rates and the Market for New Light Vehicles
Adam Copeland, George Hall, and Louis Maccini
September  Number 741

Reference Guide to U.S. Repo and Securities Lending Markets
Viktoria Baklanova, Adam Copeland, and Rebecca McCaughrin
September  Number 740
Revised December 2015

Intended College Attendance: Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Costs
Zachary Bleemer and Basit Zafar
September  Number 739

Good News Is Bad News: Leverage Cycles and Sudden Stops
Ozge Akinci and Ryan Chahrour
September  Number 738

Nonlinear Pricing with Competition: The Market for Settling Payments
Adam Copeland and Rodney Garratt
August  Number 737

The Term Structure of the Price of Variance Risk
Marianne Andries, Thomas Eisenbach, Martin Schmalz,
and Yichuan Wang
August  Number 736
Revised January 2025

The Price Effects of Cash versus In-Kind Transfers
Jesse M. Cunha, Giacomo De Giorgi, and Seema Jayachandran
August  Number 735

Subjective Intertemporal Substitution
Richard K. Crump, Stefano Eusepi, Andrea Tambalotti,
and Giorgio Topa
July  Number 734
Revised August 2021

Credit Supply and the Rise in College Tuition: Evidence from the Expansion in Federal Student Aid Programs
David O. Lucca, Taylor Nadauld, and Karen Shen
July  Number 733
Revised February 2017

Determinants of Mortgage Default and Consumer Credit Use:
The Effects of Foreclosure Laws and Foreclosure Delays

Sewin Chan, Andrew Haughwout, Andrew Hayashi, and
Wilbert van der Klaauw
June  Number 732

Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy
Previous title: "Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy"
Martin Beraja, Andreas Fuster, Erik Hurst, and Joseph Vavra
June  Number 731
Revised March 2018

Segregated Balance Accounts
Rodney Garratt, Antoine Martin, James McAndrews, and Ed Nosal
May  Number 730
Revised August 2015

Supervising Large, Complex Financial Institutions: What Do Supervisors Do?
Thomas Eisenbach, Andrew Haughwout, Beverly Hirtle, Anna Kovner, David Lucca, and Matthew Plosser
May  Number 729

Small Firms’ Formalization: The Stick Treatment
Giacomo De Giorgi, Matthew Ploenzke, and Aminur Rahman
May  Number 728

Asset Price Effects of Peer Benchmarking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Sushant Acharya and Alvaro Pedraza
May  Number 727

Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Financial Markets
Previous title: "Intermediaries as Information Aggregators: An Application to U.S. Treasury Auctions"
Nina Boyarchenko, David O. Lucca, and Laura Veldkamp
April  Number 726
Revised March 2016

Insolvency after the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform
Stefania Albanesi and Jaromir Nosal
April  Number 725

Watering a Lemon Tree: Heterogeneous Risk Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission
Dong Beom Choi, Thomas M. Eisenbach, and Tanju Yorulmazer
April  Number 724
Revised April 2020

Nonlinearity and Flight to Safety in the Risk-Return Trade-Off for Stocks and Bonds
Tobias Adrian, Richard Crump, and Erik Vogt
April  Number 723
Revised June 2017

Discussion of “Systemic Risk and the Solvency-Liquidity Nexus of Banks”
Tobias Adrian
April  Number 722

The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Prashant Bharadwaj, Giacomo De Giorgi, David Hansen, and Christopher Neilson
March  Number 721

Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti
March  Number 720

The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
W. Scott Frame, Andreas Fuster, Joseph Tracy, and James Vickery
March  Number 719

Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives
Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, and María José Prados
March  Number 718

Does Central Clearing Reduce Counterparty Risk in Realistic Financial Networks?
Rodney Garratt and Peter Zimmerman
March  Number 717

Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Distribution of Consumption
Giacomo De Giorgi and Luca Gambetti
March  Number 716

Informational Contagion in the Laboratory
Marco Cipriani, Antonio Guarino, Giovanni Guazzarotti, Federico Tagliati, and Sven Fischer
March  Number 715

The Equity Risk Premium: A Review of Models
Fernando Duarte and Carlo Rosa
February  Number 714

How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape
Sewin Chan, Andrew Haughwout, and Joseph Tracy
February  Number 713

Overnight RRP Operations as a Monetary Policy Tool: Some Design Considerations
Joshua Frost, Lorie Logan, Antoine Martin, Patrick McCabe, Fabio Natalucci, and Julie Remache
February  Number 712

Anxiety and Pro-cyclical Risk Taking with Bayesian Agents
Previous title: "Confidence Cycles"
Thomas M. Eisenbach and Martin C. Schmalz
February  Number 711
Revised January 2019

What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Dynamics?
Previous title: "What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?"
Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan, and Jae Song
February  Number 710
Revised September 2019

Credit Supply and the Housing Boom
Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti
February  Number 709

Betting against Beta (and Gamma) Using Government Bonds
J. Benson Durham
January  Number 708

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