Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart favours more explicit inflation target
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart says more explicit target will better anchor inflation expectations
Decomposing the education wage gap
Atlanta Federal Reserve paper adds to plethora of research on link between education and wages
Atlanta Fed on dual labour markets
Income inequality may be exacerbated by firing costs, Atlanta Federal Reserve research argues
Greece’s fiscal situation far worse than US: Atlanta Fed
Atlanta Federal Reserve study says Greece’s fiscal debts more worrisome than the United States’s
Federal Reserve – Beige Book (July 2010)
Federal Reserve’s July Beige Book shows significant improvement in labour markets across five of the United States’ 12 districts
Atlanta Fed: Annual Report (2009)
Atlanta Federal Reserve Annual Report shows southeastern states hit hardest during financial crisis after boom in community banking
Four risks to growth: Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart counts Gulf of Mexico oil spill and commercial real estate sector risks among imminent threats to growth
Philly, Cleveland Fed presidents net inflation-busting pay rises
Federal Reserve's Annual Report shows ten out of 12 regional Fed presidents earned above-inflation salary increases
Agency didn't follow its models on CDO ratings
A leading rating agency gave triple A ratings to CDO tranches when their own models implied downgrades
Atlanta Fed: subprime bubble linked to numeracy
Atlanta Federal Reserve study shows people with limited numerical skills are more likely to default on their mortgage
Lockhart: Fed inflation anchor under threat
Atlanta Fed’s Dennis Lockhart warns that inflation expectations may be dislodged as a result of accommodative Fed stance
Atlanta’s Lockhart: don’t politicise the Fed
Atlanta Federal Reserve’s Dennis Lockhart says Fed must have the capacity to make unpopular decisions
Foreclosure policy should focus on unemployed
Foreclosure-reduction policy should focus on helping people who lose their jobs, new research from the Atlanta Federal Reserve suggests.
Fed outsources in-house cheque images system
The Federal Reserve has decided to migrate its archive of cheque images to a private provider in an effort to reduce costs.
Atlanta's Lockhart: exports won't save US
Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, does not expect a sudden return of exports as a driver of recovery in the United States in the remainder of 2009.
Multi-family subprime borrowers should owe less
Multi-family property owners with subprime mortgages should receive a writedown of a proportion of the principal balance on their loan, argues a new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Atlanta's Lockhart: financial sector matters
A working financial sector matters to us all, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve.
The role of human error in the yield curve
Investors' systematic forecast errors are an important source of business-cycle variation in measured risk premia, research published by the Atlanta Federal Reserve finds.
Fed must "respond pragmatically" to poorer outlook
Policymakers must be prepared to respond pragmatically to a recent bout of worse-than-expected data on the United States economy, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve and a non-voting member of the Federal Open Market…
Bernanke gives gloomy forecast for US growth
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Thursday that the United States economy would slump in the coming months.
Shift to e-payments leads to Fed job cuts
The US Federal Reserve reductions in cheque processing is likely to result in more than 210 jobs being cut at the Minneapolis Fed, as consumers shift from paper checks to electronic payments.
Banks still matter most - Bernanke
Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, says the Fed has retained the ability to control financing costs, despite the fact that nonbank lenders and capital markets have replaced banks as sources of credit for many households and businesses.
Moskow sets retirement, leaving fourth Fed opening
This article published Monday 22 January by Bloomberg notes that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Michael Moskow's departure will leave a fourth high-level opening at the central bank.
Atlanta Fed paper on cross-border banking
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper "Cross-border banking: Challenges for deposit insurance and financial stability in the European Union" examines the implications that alternative regulatory structures may have for resolving failed…