FRBSF Economic Letter

2003 Issues

• Is There a Digital Divide?
  Valletta & MacDonald 2003-38, December 26 (PDF - 51KB)
• The Current Strength of the U.S. Banking Sector
  Krainer & Lopez 2003-37, December 19 (PDF - 54KB)
• Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention
  Spiegel 2003-36, December 12 (PDF - 53KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Monitoring Debt Market Information for Bank Supervisory Purposes
  Krainer & Lopez 2003-35, November 28 (PDF - 50KB)
• Should the Fed React to the Stock Market?
  Lansing 2003-34, November 14 (PDF - 63KB)
• The Bay Area Economy: Down but Not Out
  Daly & Doms 2003-33, November 7 (PDF - 94KB)
• The Natural Rate of Interest
  Williams 2003-32, October 31 (PDF - 319KB)
• Good News on Twelfth District Banking Market Concentration
  Laderman 2003-31, October 24 (PDF - 67KB)
• Is Our IT Manufacturing Edge Drifting Overseas?
  Valletta 2003-30, October 10 (PDF - 66KB)
• Mortgage Refinancing
  Krainer, Marquis 2003-29, October 3 (PDF - 68KB)
• Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility in the U.S.
  Daly & Valletta 2003-28, September 26 (PDF - 62KB)
• The Fiscal Problem of the 21st Century
  Jones 2003-27, September 19 (PDF - 62KB)
• Are We Running out of New Ideas? A Look at Patents and R&D
  Wilson 2003-26, September 12 (PDF - 63KB)
• The Present and Future of Pension Insurance
  Kwan 2003-25, August 29 (PDF - 53KB)
• Improving the Way We Measure Consumer Prices
  Wu 2003-24, August 22 (PDF - 89KB)
• Understanding State Budget Troubles
  Daly 2003-23, August 15 (PDF - 81KB)
• Disclosure as a Supervisory Tool: Pillar 3 of Basel II
  Lopez 2003-22, August 1 (PDF - 81KB)
• Bank Lending to Businesses in a Jobless Recovery
  Marquis 2003-21, July 25 (PDF - 97KB)
• Is Official Foreign Exchange Intervention Effective?
  Hutchison 2003-20, July 18 (PDF - 100KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Pension Accounting and Reported Earnings
  Kwan 2003-19, July 4 (PDF - 92KB)
• Financial Development, Productivity, and Economic Growth
  Valderrama 2003-18, June 27 (PDF - 78KB)
• Growth in the Post-Bubble Economy
  Lansing 2003-17, June 20 (PDF - 62KB)
• Underfunding of Private Pension Plans
  Kwan 2003-16, June 13 (PDF - 69KB)
  (Financial Notes)
• What Makes the Yield Curve Move?
  Wu 2003-15, June 6 (PDF - 462KB)
• Minding the Speed Limit
  Walsh 2003-14, May 30 (PDF - 450KB)
• What Monetary Regime for Post-War Iraq?
  Spiegel 2003-13, May 9 (PDF - 52KB)
• Finance and Macroeconomics
  Dennis & Rudebusch 2003-12, May 2 (PDF - 53KB)
• Foreign Exchange Reserves in East Asia: Why the High Demand?
  Aizenman & Marion 2003-11, April 25 (PDF - 77KB)
  (Pacific Basin Notes)
• Time-Inconsistent Monetary Policies: Recent Research
  Dennis 2003-10, April 11 (PDF - 51KB)
• Shifting Household Assets in a Bear Market
  Marquis 2003-09, March 28 (PDF - 68KB)
• Technological Change
  Trehan 2003-08, March 21 (PDF - 55KB)
• Economic Prospects for the U.S. and California: A Monetary Policymaker's View
  Parry 2003-07, March 14 (PDF - 80KB)
• House Price Bubbles
  Krainer 2003-06, March 7 (PDF - 76KB)
• Extended Unemployment in California
  Valletta 2003-05, February 28 (PDF - 85KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Where to Find the Productivity Gains from Innovation?
  Wilson 2003-04, February 21 (PDF - 59KB)
• How Financial Firms Manage Risk
  Lopez 2003-03, February 14 (PDF - 51KB)
  (Financial Notes)
• Increased Stability in Twelfth District Employment Growth
  Laderman 2003-02, January 31 (PDF - 63KB)
  (Regional Report)
• Using Equity Market Information to Monitor Banking Institutions
  Krainer & Lopez 2003-01, January 24 (PDF - 60KB)

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