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| Regional Indexes of Coincident Economic Indicators
Our Indexes of Coincident Economic Indicators (CEI) for May show continued decline in activity in New Jersey, New York State and New York City.  |
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| Journal of Regional Science’s 50th Anniversary Conference The conference was co-organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Journal of Regional Science. It marked the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Regional Science. Urban and Regional researchers presented state of the art papers on their respective topics. |
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 An Experimental Investigation of Why Individuals ConformThis paper presents a simple model constructed on the premise that people are motivated by their own payoff as well as by how their actions compare with those of other people in their reference group. By Basit Zafar, Staff Reports 365, February 2009 |
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| College Major Choice and the Gender Gap This paper addresses the question of how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. By Basit Zafar, Staff Reports 364, February 2009 |
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 New Measures of Economic Growth and Productivity in Upstate New YorkThe authors measure the size and growth of upstate New York's economy using new measures of metropolitan area gross domestic product. By Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz, Current Issues in Economics and Finance Second District Highlights (14) 9, December 2008 |
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| Employment in the New York - New Jersey Region: 2008 Review and Outlook The 2007 slowing in job growth in the New York–New Jersey region continued through August 2008. By Jason Bram, James Orr, and Rae Rosen, Current Issues in Economics and Finance Second District Highlights (14) 7, October 2008 |
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| Housing Busts and Household Mobility The authors used two decades of American Housing Survey data from 1985 to 2005, estimated the influence of negative home equity and rising mortgage interest rates on household mobility. By Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy, Staff Reports 350, October 2008 |
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