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Whither the Trade War with China?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-09-21)
In the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the U.S. has demanded reducing or even eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and that China halt intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. ...
Hydraulic Fracking: A Story of American Innovation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-04-01)
A regular misconception is that Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of energy from oil and natural gas. Despite massive oil production, Saudi Arabia produces less than 1% of total energy from oil and gas. The U.S. currently ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, August 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-19)
The Business-Cycle Index rose almost 1% between May and June of 2019. The local economy is in good shape and has had positive growth for the last four months. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 2.7%, a ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, December 2018
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-12-17)
Growth remains positive, but is slowing. The Business-Cycle Index rose at an annualized rate of 2.4%, below the long-run average growth rate, but up slightly from the growth rate for September. The unemployment rate decreased ...
The Time Varying Effect of Monetary Policy Surprise on Stock Returns: Bursting Bubble Beating Forward Guidance
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
Generally, stock prices react negatively to unanticipated and restrictive monetary policies. In PERC Working Paper 1505, Jordan Professor of Economics, Dennis W. Jansen, and Anastasia S. Zervou test to what extent surprises ...
Remittances, Output, and Exchange Rate Regimes: Theory with an Application to Latin America
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-20)
Remittances from immigrants back to relatives and friends in their home country represent a large and important flow of funds both absolutely and relative to measures of national income. Macroeconomic aggregates are impacted ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, April 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-04-22)
The Business Cycle Index measured one point lower than the revised January 2019 value, a -4.7% annualized rate of decline. Nonfarm employment for January was revised downward by 0.1% from the value released last month, and ...
Texas Taxes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-05-09)
Local property tax collections are increasing faster than other Texas taxes. The legislature is currently considering proposals the would limit the growth in property tax revenues. How much does a Texas resident pay in ...
The Identification of Response of Stock Returns to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-08-11)
The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
Revisionist Economic History? Potential GDP in the United States
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-01)
U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has finally caught up with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates of potential GDP as of late 2017, even though the National Bureau of Economic Research dates the end of the Great ...