by Liberty Street Economics | Jan 18, 2024 | AlphaTack Intel
Firms remain divided about the value of the office for “office” workers. Some firms think that their employees are more productive when working from home. Others believe that the office is a key place for investing in workers’ skills. In this post, which is based on a...
by Liberty Street Economics | Jan 11, 2024 | AlphaTack Intel
The foreign exchange market has evolved extensively over time, undergoing important shifts in the types of market participants and the mix of instruments traded, within a trading ecosystem that has become increasingly complex. In this post, we discuss...
by Liberty Street Economics | Jan 10, 2024 | AlphaTack Intel
In the second quarter of 2022, the homeownership rate for white households was 75 percent, compared to 45 percent for Black households and 48 percent for Hispanic households. One reason for these differences, virtually unchanged in the last few decades, is uneven...
by Liberty Street Economics | Jan 8, 2024 | AlphaTack Intel
How can we accurately measure changes in living standards over time in the presence of price inflation? In this post, I discuss a novel and simple methodology that uses the cross-sectional relationship between income and household-level inflation to construct accurate...
by Liberty Street Economics | Dec 21, 2023 | AlphaTack Intel
The topics covered on Liberty Street Economics in 2023 hit many themes, reflecting the range of research interests of the more than sixty staff economists at the New York Fed and their coauthors. We published 122 posts this year, exploring important subjects such as...