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Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, July 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-07-16)
Initial unemployment claims over the last 17 weeks topped 50 million nationally. The number of claims per week have declined since the week ending on March 14. Over the same time period, 2.8 million workers in Texas filed ...
Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-30)
What role does race have in cases of police use of force? This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the paper by Rex B. Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and Graduate Student Fellow CarlyWill Sloan, which examines how ...
Has the Information Channel of Monetary Policy Disappeared? Revisiting the Empirical Evidence
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-30)
Does the Federal Reserve have an “information advantage� in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks ...
Coronavirus and the Economy Presentation, Updated 8/27
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-08-27)
This presentation includes information on: · The number of unemployment insurance claims in the U.S. and Texas for the week ending August 22, 2020 and August 15, 2020 for College Station-Bryan · June unemployment rates ...
Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility with a Safety-First Component
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-10-14)
Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. In ...
Coronavirus Economics: The Impact of Shutting Down Meatpacking Plants
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-25)
Motivated by the observed beef and livestock market impacts of coronavirus-caused meatpacking plant shutdowns, this paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects of closures among downstream producers on both ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, February 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-02-24)
The Business-Cycle Index decreased by 0.2% in the month of December 2019. The unemployment rate remained at the same level as the previous month, 2.7% in December 2019. Nonfarm employment decreased 0.2% in the month of ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, January 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-01-20)
The College Station-Bryan Business-Cycle Index has been rebased to January 2001 starting with this month's edition of Economic Indicators. The value of the new index was 201 in November 2019, a 0.3% increase from October. ...
Updated 5/28: A Presentation on the Coronavirus and The Economy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-05-28)
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 Unemployment Insurance claims in the United ...
Updated: A Presentation on the Coronavirus and The Economy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-28)
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 and ...