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Are Millennials Ruining Monetary Policy? Student Loan Debt and Monetary Policy Transmission

Has the significant increase in fixed-rate, non-refinanceable student loan debt in the United States over the last 20 years affected the transmission of monetary policy to household consumption? Several studies have emphasized the importance of …

Introducing the Distributional Financial Accounts of the United States

This paper describes the construction of the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFAs), a new dataset containing quarterly estimates of the distribution of U.S. household wealth since 1989, and provides the first look at the resulting data. The DFAs …

Matching Banks by Business Model, Geography and Size: A Dataset

In this note, we describe an algorithm, developed in Carlson, Shan, and Warusawitharana (2013), to match banks that are geographically close and are similar in size and business model. Concurrently, we also release a data set of matched banks …