The
President's Report to the Board of Directors 
August 7, 2008
Classroom Peer Effects and Student Achievement
by Mary A. Burke and
Tim R. Sass
Working Paper W08-5
New England Economic Indicators
August 2008
Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy:
A Phillips Curve Retrospective
Papers and presentations from the Boston Fed's 53rd economic conference
Public-Private Partnerships, Cooperative Agreements, and the Production of Public Services in Small and Rural Municipalities
by Robert D. Mohr, Steven Deller, and John Halstead
NEPPC Working Paper No. 08-4
Financing Municipalities in New England:
Revisiting the State-Local Relationship
by Robert Clifford
New England Public Policy Center
Conference Report 07-1
The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks
by Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar, and J. Christina Wang
Working Paper W08-4
Blood Donations and Incentives:
Evidence from a Field Experiment
by Lorenz Goette and Alois Stutzer
Working Paper W08-3
Overview of New England's Economic Performance in 2007
New England Economic Indicators, May/June 2008
A New Approach to Raising Social Security’s Earliest Eligibility Age
by Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert K. Triest, and Natalia Zhivan
Public
Policy Discussion Paper P08-4
The Lengthening of Childhood
by David Deming and Susan Dynarski
Public Policy Discussion Paper P08-3
The Lengthening of Childhood
by David Deming and Susan Dynarski
Public Policy Discussion Paper P08-3
Negative Equity and Foreclosure: Theory and Evidence
by Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen
Working Paper NEPPC08-3
Subprime Facts: What (We Think) We Know about the Subprime Crisis and What We Don’t
by Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul S. Willen
Public Policy Discussion Paper P08-2
Credit Card Debt and Payment Use
by Charles Sprenger and Joanna Stavins
Working Paper W08-2
Household Debt Repayment Behaviour: What Role Do Institutions Play?
by Burcu Duygan-Bump and Charles Grant
Working Paper QAU08-3
Designing State Aid Formulas: The Case of a New Formula
for Distributing Municipal Aid in Massachusetts
by Bo Zhao and Katharine Bradbury
Working Paper W08-1 / NEPPC 08-2
Research
Review
Issue No. 8 (July-December
2007)
Is Obesity Contagious? Social Networks vs. Environmental Factors in the Obesity Epidemic
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Jason M. Fletcher
QAU Working Paper No. QAU08-2
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
by Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, and Alois Stutzer
Public Policy Discussion Paper No. P08-1
Credit Card Redlining
by Ethan Cohen-Cole
QAU Working Paper No. QAU08-1
The Dynamic between Municipal Revenue Sources and the State-Local Relationship in New England
by Richard F. Dye
NEPPC Working Paper No. 08-1
Can Young Professionals Afford to Buy
a Home in New England?
New England Public Policy Center Policy
Brief 08-1
Wanting It All:
The
Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System
Proceedings of the Boston Fed's 50th Research Conference, held in June 2005
A Principal Components Approach to Estimating Labor Market Pressure and Its Implications for Inflation
by Michelle Barnes, Ryan Chahrour, Giovanni Olivei, and Gaoyan Tang
Public Policy Brief No. B07-2
Input and Output Inventories in General Equilibrium
by Matteo Iacoviello, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Scott Schuh
Working Paper No. W07-16
Subprime Outcomes: Risky Mortgages, Homeownership Experiences, and Foreclosures
by
Kristopher Gerardi, Adam Hale Shapiro, and Paul Willen
Working Paper No. W07-15
The Effects of Expectations on Perception: Experimental Design Issues and Further Evidence
by Tyler Williams
Working Paper No. W07-14
Active Decisions and Pro-Social Behavior
by Alois Stutzer, Lorenz Goette, and Michael Zehnder
Working Paper No. W07-13
Social Networks and Vaccination Decisions
by Neel Rao, Markus M. Möbius, and Tanya Rosenblat
Working Paper No. W07-12
Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education
Programs
by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Public Policy Discussion Paper No. P07-5
Loss Distribution Estimation, External Data and Model Averaging
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Todd Prono
Working Paper No. QAU07-8
Is New England Experiencing a "Brain Drain"? Facts about Demographic Change and Young Professionals
by Heather Brome
NEPPC Discussion Paper No. 07-3
The Labor Market for Direct Care Workers
by Reagan Baughman and Kristin Smith
NEPPC Working Paper No. 07-4
The Impact of Wetlands Rules on the Prices of Regulated and Proximate Houses: A Case Study
by Katherine A. Kiel
NEPPC Working Paper No. 07-3
The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment
by Philip A. Trostel
NEPPC Working Paper No. 07-2
Do Loans Increase College Access and Choice?
Examining the Introduction of Universal Student Loans
by Bridget Terry Long
NEPPC Working Paper No. 07-1
How Much Is a Friend Worth? Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks
by Stephen Leider, Markus M. Möbius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Quoc-Anh Do
Working Paper No. W07-11
Space and Time in Macroeconomic Panel Data: Young Workers and State-Level Unemployment Revisited
by Christopher L. Foote
Working Paper No. W07-10
Demonstration Effects in Preventive Care
by Ritesh Banerjee, Ethan Cohen-Cole, and Giulio Zanella
Working Paper No. QAU07-7
Reaching
the Goal: Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in New England
Current Strategies and New Initiatives
New England Public Policy Center Research Report 07-1
Who's Who in Consumer Payments Research? An Overview of Industry Payments Research Companies
Emerging Payments Research Group Briefing
Information Diffusion Based Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies
by Athanasios Bolmatis and Evan G. Sekeris
Working Paper QAU07-6
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
by Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, and Stephan Meier
Working Paper W07-9
Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages
by Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert K. Triest
Working Paper W07-8
Research
Review
Issue No. 7 (January-June
2007)
GASB 45 and Other
Post-Employment Benefit Promises: The Fog Is Clearing
by Steffanie Brady
NEPPC Policy Brief 07-7
Does Competition Reduce Price Discrimination? New Evidence from the Airline Industry
by Kristopher S. Gerardi and Adam Shapiro
Working Paper W07-7
Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice: 2006 Conference Summary
by Margaret Carten, Dan Littman, Scott Schuh, and Joanna Stavins
Public Policy Discussion Paper P07-4
The Potential Economic
Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage in New Hampshire
by Antoniya Owens
NEPPC Discussion Paper 07-2
“How Strong is the Macroeconomic Case for Downward Real Wage Rigidity?”
by Steinar Holden and Fredrik Wulfsberg
Working Paper W07-6
Small Employers
and Expanded Health Insurance Coverage
by Phil Primack
NEPPC Policy Brief 07-5
The Theory of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing
by Zvi Bodie, Jonathan Treussard, and Paul Willen
Public Policy Discussion Paper P07-3
Stock Market Report
June 21, 2007
Overborrowing and Undersaving: Lessons and Policy Implications from Research in Behavioral Economics
by Marques Benton, Stephan Meier, and Charles Sprenger
Community Affairs Discussion Paper 07-4
Monthly Mutual Fund Report
June 2007
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
by Julio J. Rotemberg
Working Paper W07-5
Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
by Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi
Working Paper W07-4
Massachusetts Employment Growth 1996–2006: Effects of Industry Performance and Industry Composition
by Katharine Bradbury and Yolanda K. Kodrzycki
Public Policy Brief B07-1
The Fiscal Capacity of New England
by Matthew Peter Nagowski
NEPPC Policy Brief 07-4
Unpacking Social Interactions
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Giulio Zanella
Working Paper QAU07-4
Optimal Retirement Asset Decumulation Strategies: The Impact of Housing Wealth
by Wei Sun, Robert K. Triest, and Anthony Webb
Public Policy Discussion Paper P07-2
Impatience and Credit Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
Working Paper W07-3
Using Unexpected Recalls to Examine the Long-Term Earnings Effects of Job Displacement
by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki
Working Paper W07-2
Research
Review
Issue No. 6 (July-December
2006)
Who Are the Uninsured, and Why Are They Uninsured?
by Antoniya Owens
NEPPC Policy Brief No. 07-3
Crowded out of the Housing Market
by Darcy Rollins Saas with Alicia Sasser
NEPPC Policy Brief No. 07-2
Covering the Uninsured: Costs, Benefits, and Policy Alternatives for New England
by Matthew Nagowski
NEPPC Conference Report CR06-1
The Boston Fed Study of Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice: A Survey of Federal Reserve System Employees
by Marques Benton, Krista Blair, Marianne Crowe, and Scott Schuh
Public Policy Discussion Paper P07-1
GARCH-Based Identification of Triangular Systems with an Application to the CAPM: Still Living with the Roll Critique
by Todd Prono
Working Paper W07-1
School Finance in Vermont:
Balancing Equal Education
and Fair Tax Burdens
by Darcy Rollins Saas
NEPPC Discussion Paper 07-1
The New England Rental Market
by Alicia Sasser
NEPPC Policy Brief 07-1
Research
Review
Issue No. 5 (January-June
2006)
Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity among Massachusetts Cities and Towns
by Katharine Bradbury and Bo Zhao
Working Paper W06-19 / NEPPC 06-3
Do Subsidies Increase Charitable Giving in the Long Run? Matching Donations in a Field Experiment
by Stephan Meier
Working Paper W06-18
Managing the Risk in Pension Plans and Recent Pension Reforms
by Richard W. Kopcke
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-7
Measurement of Unemployment
by Katharine Bradbury
Public Policy Brief B06-2
The Changing Housing Market:
A Bang or a Whimper?
by Karl E. Case
NEPPC Policy Brief 06-4
International Risk-Taking, Volatility, and Consumption Growth
by Maria Giduskova and Borja Larrain
Working Paper W06-17
How Small is Zero Price? The True Value of Free Products
by Kristina Shampan’er and Dan Ariely
Working Paper W06-16
Decomposing Consumer Wealth Effects: Evidence on the Role of Real Estate Assets Following the Wealth Cycle of 1990-2002
by Michael R. Donihue and Andriy Avramenko
Working Paper W06-15
In Noise We Trust? Optimal Monetary Policy with Random Targets
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Bogdan Cosmaciuc
Working Paper W06-14
Measuring Fiscal Disparities Across the U.S. States
by Yesim Yilmaz, Sonya Hoo, Matthew Nagowski, Kim Rueben, and Robert Tannenwald
NEPPC Working Paper 06-2
Using State and Metropolitan Area House Price Cycles to Interpret the U.S. Housing Market
by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Nelson Gerew
Public Policy Brief B06-1
Hollywood East? Film Tax Credits in New England
Darcy Rollins Saas
NEPPC Policy Brief 06-3
Reading the
Fine Print: How Details Matter in Tax and Expenditure
Limitations
by Heather Brome and Darcy Rollins Saas
NEPPC Research Report 06-3
New Hampshire's Quest
for a Constitutionally Adequate Education
by Oyebola Olabisi
NEPPC Discussion Paper 06-2
New England Migration
Trends
by David Agrawal
NEPPC Discussion Paper 06-1
Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market
by Kristopher Gerardi, Harvey S. Rosen, and Paul Willen
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-6
Social Dynamics of Obesity
by Mary Burke and Frank Heiland
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-5
Industry Reference Guide for Consumer
Payments Research
Q2 2006
New England Community Developments
Issue 2, 2006
A Tale of Tails: An Empirical Analysis of Loss Distribution Models for Estimating Operational Risk Capital
by Kabir Dutta and Jason Perry
Working Paper W06-13
Ensuring Adequate Electrical Capacity in New England
by Carrie Conaway
NEPPC Policy Brief No. 06-2
Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game
by Julio J. Rotemberg
Working Paper W06-12
U.S. Health Care Reform: Difficult Trade-Offs
2005 Annual Report
Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Vertical Production Chain Approach
Adam Hale Shapiro
Working Paper W06-11
Productivity and U.S. Macroeconomic Performance: Interpreting the Past and Predicting the Future with a Two-Sector Real Business Cycle Model
Peter N. Ireland and Scott Schuh
Working Paper W06-10
The Challenge of Energy Policy in New England
Carrie Conaway
NEPPC Research Report 06-2
Fueling the Future: Energy Policy in New England
Antoniya Owens
NEPPC Conference Report 05-2
Efficient Expropriation: Sustainable Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy
Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador, and Gita Gopinath
Working Paper W06-9
Collateralized Borrowing and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice
Paul Willen and Felix Kubler
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-4
Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services, and Specialization in the Financial Industry
J. Christina Wang and Susanto Basu
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-3
Do People Behave in Experiments as in the Field? Evidence from Donations
Matthias Benz and Stephan Meier
Working Paper W06-8
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Lorenz Goette, David Huffman, and Stephan Meier
Working Paper W06-7
Pension Accounting and Corporate Earnings: The World According to GAAP
Peter Fortune
Public Policy Discussion Paper P06-2
A
Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence
on Pro-Social Behavior
Stephan Meier
Working Paper W06-6
Consumer
Behavior and Payment Choice: A Conference Summary
Marianne Crowe, Scott Schuh, and Joanna Stavins
Public Policy Discussion
Paper P06-1
An
Overview of Chapters 40R and 40S: Massachusetts’ Newest
Housing Policies
Darcy Rollins
NEPPC Policy Brief No. 06-1
Cyclical
Wages in a Search and Bargaining Model with
Large Firms
Julio J. Rotemberg
Working Paper
W06-5
Supply
Matters for Asset Prices: Evidence from IPOs
in Emerging Markets
Matías
Braun and Borja Larrain
Working Paper W06-4
Dishonesty
in Everyday Life and its Policy Implications
Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely
Working Paper W06-3
Measuring
Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time
over Five Decades
by Mark Aguiar
and Erik Hurst
Working Paper W06-2
The
Potential Economic Impact of Increasing the
Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
by Alicia Sasser
New England Public Policy Center Research
Report N06-1
The
Monetary Transmission Mechanism
by Peter N. Ireland
Working Paper W06-1
Does
Firm Value Move Too Much to be Justified
by Subsequent Changes in Cash Flow?
by Borja Larrain and
Motohiro Yogo
Working Paper W05-18
Deciding
to Distrust
by Iris Bohnet and
Stephan Meier
Public Policy Discussion
Paper P05-4
Research
Review
Issue No. 3 (January-June
2005)
The
Challenge of Energy Policy in New England
by Carrie Conaway
NEPPC Working
Paper N05-2
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