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Public Policy Discussion Papers present new policy
research, research surveys, or research bearing on policy
issues. The papers are written for policymakers, informed
business people, and academics by economists at the
Boston Fed, and many of them present research intended
for professional journals. The series began in 2004
with Number 04-1.
Full text of papers are available in portable document
format (PDF).
2009 Papers
Prior papers: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
No. 09-9
“Impending U.S. Spending Bust? The Role of Housing Wealth as Borrowing Collateral”
by Daniel Cooper |
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No. 09-8
“TIPS Scorecard: Are TIPS Accomplishing What They Were Supposed to Accomplish? Can They Be Improved?”
by Michelle L. Barnes, Zvi Bodie, Robert K. Triest, and J. Christina Wang |
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No. 09-7
“Did Easy Credit Lead to Economic Peril? Home Equity Borrowing and Household Behavior in the Early 2000s”
by Daniel Cooper |
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No. 09-6
“Reinvigorating Springfield’s Economy: Lessons from Resurgent Cities”
by Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Ana Patricia Muñoz
with Lynn Browne, DeAnna Green, Marques Benton, Prabal
Chakrabarti, David Plasse, Richard Walker, and Bo Zhao |
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No. 09-5
“Securitization and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Lender
Cutoff Rule”
by Ryan Bubb and Alex Kaufman
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No. 09-4
“Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures, and Securitization”
by Manuel Adelino, Kristopher Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen
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No. 09-3
“Reviving Mortgage Securitization: Lessons from the Brady Plan and Duration Analysis”
by Fabià Gumbau-Brisa and Catherine L. Mann |
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No. 09-2
“Reducing Foreclosures”
by Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher S. Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul S. Willen |
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No. 09-1
“Making Sense of the Subprime Crisis”
by Kristopher S. Gerardi, Andreas Lehnert, Shane M. Sherland, and Paul S. Willen |
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2008 Papers
No. 08-6
“Subprime Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Urban
Neighborhoods”
by Kristopher S. Gerardi and Paul S. Willen |
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No. 08-5
“Summary of the Workshop on Consumer Behavior
and Payment Choice”
by Scott Schuh,
and Joanna Stavins
A subsequent version of this paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems.
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No. 08-4
“A New Approach to Raising Social Security’s
Earliest Eligibility Age”
by Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert
K. Triest, and Natalia Zhivan |
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No. 08-3
“Negative Equity and Foreclosure:
Theory and Evidence”
by Christopher
L. Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, and Paul
S. Willen |
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No. 08-2
“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 |
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No.
08-1
“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
A subsequent version of this paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Human Resources. |
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2007 Papers
No. 07-5
“Discounting Financial Literacy: Time Preferences and Participation in Financial Education
Programs”
by Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger
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No. 07-4
“Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice: 2006 Conference Summary”
by Margaret Carten, Dan Littman, Scott Schuh, and Joanna Stavins |
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No.
07-3
“The Theory of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing”
by Zvi Bodie, Jonathan Treussard, and Paul Willen |
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07-2
“Optimal Retirement Asset Decumulation Strategies: The Impact of Housing Wealth”
by Wei Sun, Robert K. Triest, and Anthony Webb |
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No.
07-1
“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 |
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