In the quest to create an accurate, reliable measure of inflation, economists have devised many ways to work with the...

Economists have long debated whether the key determinant of slack in the labor market is the long-term or short-term unemployed....

Firms anticipate 2.0 percent inflation over the next 12 months, according to the Atlanta Fed's business inflation expectations survey. Respondents...

View the latest series of charts from our Economic & Financial Highlights page, including new data on employment and payroll,...

The Atlanta Fed's sticky price consumer price index (CPI)--a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly--rose 2.9 percent...

Lei Fang and Cara McDaniel. Working Paper 2014-5 (June). This paper documents the common decreasing trend in home hours for...

The authors examine the relationship between risk and return, an intensely scrutinized topic in finance. Their nonparametric approach allows for...

Because financial institutions play a central role in the payments industry, they are in the best position to keep out...

The Atlanta Fed's Construction and Real Estate Survey was mixed in May. Although builders indicated modest improvement in home sales...

The Federal Reserve Banks is hosting a series of Payment System Improvement Town Halls this month. The meetings are intended...