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Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, November 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-11-19)
The Business-Cycle Index decreased by 3.2% from August to September after four continuous months of positive growth. The local unemployment rate jumped to 5.6% in September from 4.3% in August, but remained the second ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, March 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-03-19)
The Business-Cycle Index was basically flat between December 2019 and January 2020. The revised nonfarm employment rate was 0.4% higher in January 2020 and has increased 2.6% relative to the level in January 2019. Taxable ...
Coronavirus and the Economy Presentation, Updated 7/16
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-07-16)
This presentation focuses on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on College Station-Bryan and the state of Texas. The attached presentation includes information on: Updated national unemployment insurance claims for ...
Money and Banking When Reserves Pay Interest
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-09)
The Federal Reserve’s decision in 2008 to begin paying interest on bank reserves, particularly excess reserves (the IOER), has changed the role of the banking system and the determination of the nation’s money supply. ...
Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-29)
Despite widespread interest, there is little systematic evidence on the relationship between income, wealth, and charitable giving. Although the media suggests that the well-off are stingy, the misuse of data, incomplete ...
Public Pension Reforms and Fiscal Foresight: Narrative Evidence and Aggregate Implications
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-29)
With aging societies, policymakers have increasingly focused on pension retrenchment reforms in recent years to keep their pension systems solvent. PERC Professor Sarah Zubairy and co-author Huixin Bi explore the evolution ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, April 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-17)
Data on initial unemployment claims indicate that Texas lost almost 8% of its nonfarm employment in the last four weeks. Nationally, the 22 million in new unemployment claims in the last four weeks is equivalent to 14.5% ...
Alamos Alliance XXVII 2020 Executive Summary
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-03-05)
Why are capital markets dysfunctional in an era of excessive liquidity, low interest rates and modest inflation? Why has the Chilean economic model, an inspiration to many other nations over many years, come under vicious ...
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-02-25)
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 made significant changes to the rate structure of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, including the near-doubling of the standard deduction. Many taxpayers who normally itemize ...
Energy and the Economy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-05-06)
With many of the most timely measures of economic activity lagging behind the fast moving changes in the U.S. economy, one source of extremely timely data is energy use. Energy use is not only tied to the weather as we ...