384 US Regional House Price Indexes Added to FREDMay 24 These 384 quarterly series from the Federal Housing Finance Agency include 355 series for metropolitan statistical areas and 29 series for metropolitan divisions. Here, a house price index is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. Recent Economist Hires
YiLi Chien (2012)
Alexander Monge-Naranjo (May 2012)
Yongseok Shin (December 2012)
William Dupor (Summer 2013)
David Wiczer (Summer 2013)
392 Penn World Table Series Added to FREDMay 16 These 392 international series from the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn World Table 7.1 include 190 ratios of GNP to GDP; 29 purchasing power parity- converted GDP per person engaged in labor force; 121 purchasing power parity- converted GDP per person counted in total employment; and 52 purchasing power parity- converted GDP per hour worked by employees. 3 Cash Surplus/Deficit and 4 Central Government Debt Series Added to FREDApr 24 These seven series from the World Bank represent the cash balance as a percentage of GDP for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Japan, and Sweden, as well as the total central government debt as a percentage of GDP for Bulgaria, Seychelles, and Azerbaijan. 9 Series Added to FRED from the Survey of Terms of Business LendingApr 18 These 9 series from the Board of Governors’ E.2 Survey of Terms of Business Lending include data for U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks with repricing intervals greater than 365 days and a minimal risk level. The data cover a variety of topics, including average loan size, weighted-average maturity, weighted-average effective loan rate, and total value of loans. |
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Nonlinear Relationship between Permanent and Transitory Components of Monetary Aggregates and the Economy
