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Shocks Unbalance the Global Economy

A number of shocks slowed the global economic recovery in 2011, with emerging economies on the whole faring better than the advanced economies. The fourth quarter issue of EconSouth summarizes the 2011 world economy, and looks ahead to 2012.
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Making the Case for a Low Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution

R. Anton Braun and Tomoyuki Nakajima
Working Paper 2012-1 (January)
The responsiveness of consumption growth to changes in expected interest rates plays a central role in dynamic decision making. The authors provide some new evidence that this elasticity is small.
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Updates & Other News

12/15/11
Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process
12/6/11
Distressed mortgages fall from year ago levels
11/29/11
Systematic and Liquidity Risk in Subprime-Mortgage Backed Securities
11/29/11
Capital Controls Gain Currency in Today's Global Economy
11/23/11
Why Prices Don't Respond Sooner to a Prospective Sovereign Debt Crisis
11/23/11
Impact of the Business Environment on Output and Productivity in Africa
11/23/11
Upcoming Classroom Economist: Making sense of unemployment metrics
11/16/11
It’s a small (and sometimes shaky) world after all: Exogenous shocks in a global economy
11/10/11
Made in the South: A Bad News, Good News Story
11/9/11
Share the Wealth: Teaching tips for international economics
11/2/11
T-shirt travels: Using multimedia to teach globalization
10/26/11
Payments Security: As Strong as the Weakest Link
10/25/11
Coming soon: The Classroom Economist explains monetary policy
10/21/11
Getting to the tipping point?: Using employment data to forecast the odds of a recession
9/30/11
EconSouth Explores Southeast Health Care Employment
9/26/11
'ViewPoint' shines spotlight on interest rate risk, commercial real estate
9/12/11
Reexamining the Empirical Relation between Loan Risk and Collateral: The Roles of Collateral Characteristics and Types
8/31/11
Harnessing the Power of Social Networks to Rebuild Communities
8/31/11
iPad users: Read the Atlanta Fed’s Annual Report
8/31/11
Banking Agencies Urge Responsible Lending
8/30/11
Lending Conditions Ease Slightly, Says Fed Survey
8/17/11
Tax and Nicotine
7/28/11
Fed Chairman Bernanke Discusses Outlook, Deficit to Congress
7/27/11
Data Breaches and Risk Management in Emerging Payments: An Economist's View
7/21/11
Federal Reserve Summarizes Meetings to Discuss Regulatory Reform
7/21/11
Federal Reserve Approves Rule Allowing Banks to Pay Interest on Demand-Deposit Accounts
7/19/11
Trade Strengthens Ties between China and Latin America
7/6/11
Florida: A State of Change
7/1/11
Land-Price Dynamics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
6/30/11
The Economic Relationship Between Latin America and China
6/23/11
Atlanta Fed President Lockhart Endorses Explicit Inflation Target
6/23/11
Atlanta Fed Exec Dispels Mobile Payments Myths
6/23/11
Financial Update’s “ViewPoint” presents banking data
6/17/11
Self-employment as Economic Development Strategy: What Does It Mean For Metro and Nonmetro Counties in the Southeastern United States?
6/10/11
June 22 Deadline to Apply for SBLF
6/9/11
The Economics of Green Building
6/8/11
Atlanta Fed Releases Q1 2011 Results of Small Business Survey
5/31/11
Fed Chairman: Macroprudential Regulation a "Major Innovation"
5/31/11
Fed Gov. Duke Stresses Financial Literacy
5/31/11
2010 Annual Report Explores Southeastern Economic Recovery
5/24/11
ViewPoint: The State of the District
5/23/11
New Keynesian Dynamics in a Low Interest Rate Environment
5/19/11
The Long Recovery in the Southeast
5/11/11
Accounting for the Cyclical Dynamics of Income Shares
5/10/11
ViewPoint Spotlight: State and Local Government Finances
4/30/11
Federal Reserve Proposes Ability-to-Repay Rules for Mortgages
4/22/11
Federal Reserve Issues Rule Clarifying Consumer Protections
4/22/11
Banks, Supervisors Must Balance Responsibilities, Says Fed Governor Raskin
4/22/11
Fed Chairman Bernanke Discusses Community Banking Challenges, Recovery
4/15/11
Uninsured Countercyclical Risk: An Aggregation Result and Application to Optimal Monetary Policy
4/15/11
What’s behind the surprising large drop in the unemployment rate?
4/13/11
Agritourism Takes Root in the Southeast
4/13/11
Rethinking the Relationship of Health Care and Economic Development
4/1/11
ViewPoint: The State of Southeast Banking
3/31/11
Cap in Hand: The High Price of Higher Education
3/31/11
Chi-Squared Tests for Evaluation and Comparison of Asset Pricing Models
3/31/11
Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy under Remittance Fluctuations
3/31/11
Why students need to understand investing basics
3/30/11
Price Discrimination and Business-Cycle Risk
3/25/11
Retail Payments Risk Forum publishes white paper on mobile payments
3/22/11
Federal Reserve Financial Statements Posted
3/22/11
To Work or Not to Work: The Economics of a Mother's Dilemma
3/21/11
Creating an EU-Level Supervisor for Cross-Border Banking Groups: Issues Raised by the U.S. Experience with Dual Banking
3/21/11
Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers: A Macroeconomic Approach
3/21/11
A Decomposition of the Black-White Differential in Birth Outcomes
2/25/11
Business Access to Credit Improves, Says Fed Survey
2/25/11
Consumer Credit Gains $6.1 Billion in December 2010
2/11/11
Uneven Recovery, Diverging Policies Contribute to Uncertain Global Outlook for 2011
2/9/11
Under Water in More Ways Than One: Assessing the Impact of Historic Flooding and Foreclosures on Atlanta's Vulnerable Communities
1/28/11
Putting It All Together for a Better Future
1/27/11
Share the Wealth: Teaching budgeting builds life skills
1/27/11
What is QE2? Understanding the Fed's latest monetary policy moves
1/27/11
Share the Wealth: Teaching budgeting builds life skills
1/27/11
The basics of car insurance
1/3/11
Good News, Bad News in 2010 Color Outlook for 2011
12/22/10
Confronting Model Misspecification in Macroeconomics
12/16/10
"ViewPoint" examines banking challenges
11/24/10
The Importance of Financial Literacy
11/23/10
Katrina’s Classroom: Financial Lessons from a Hurricane
11/17/10
At town hall meeting, Bernanke stresses teachers' important role
11/15/10
Retail Payments Risk Forum publishes white paper on mobile payments
11/4/10
Full Steam Ahead: Southeast Ports Prepare for Panama Canal Expansion
11/2/10
Is structural unemployment on the rise?
10/29/10
Estimating the Effect of Mortgage Foreclosures on Nearby Property Values: A Critical Review of the Literature
10/29/10
Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Efforts
10/28/10
King Cotton Still Part of Southeast's Fabric
10/21/10
New Feature Brings Clarity, Focus to Changing Supervisory Landscape
10/21/10
Communication: The Key to Guiding Southeast Banks through Tumultuous Times
10/20/10
Alabama’s Gulf Coast Cleans Up
10/7/10
Oil Spill Seeps Into Many Coastal Concerns
9/28/10
Entry Cost, Financial Friction, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and TFP
9/10/10
Job Openings Rate Increases in July, Says Employment Survey
9/7/10
Need to know: New regulations for your debt and credit cards
9/1/10
The Effect of Social Entitlement Programs on Private Transfers: New Evidence of Crowding Out
8/26/10
Expected Returns to Stock Investments by Angel Investors in Groups
8/23/10
Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts: Theory and Evidence
8/12/10
Desmitificando la deuda pública Griega: ¿Por qué nos interesa?
8/8/10
Protecting Consumers through Greater Transparency
8/6/10
Decomposing the Education Wage Gap: Everything but the Kitchen Sink
7/20/10
Further Results on the Limiting Distribution of GMM Sample Moment Conditions
7/19/10
Out of the Workplace...and Struggling to Find a Way Back In
7/7/10
2009 Atlanta Fed Annual Report looks at Southeast Banking in the Financial Crisis
7/1/10
Demystifying Sovereign Debt in Greece: Why It Matters to Us
7/1/10
EconSouth Stiff Headwinds Blow Through Retail Spaces
5/28/10
Bank Profits and Balance Sheets Show Mixed Progress
5/26/10
2008 HMDA Data Revisions Reflect Economic Downturn
5/19/10
Federal Reserve to Test Offering Term Deposits
5/19/10
Federal Reserve to Hold Public Hearings on HMDA Changes
5/17/10
Q&A: Practicing Economic Development in a New Era
4/29/10
Teachers show the right stuff to win Lesson Plan of the Year Contest
4/28/10
Las economías de Brasil y Perú comienzan a prosperar después de la recesión mundial
4/26/10
Financial Literacy and Subprime Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from a Survey Matched to Administrative Data
4/23/10
Community Banks Face New Postcrisis Challenges, Says Fed Governor Tarullo
4/23/10
Fed Governor Duke: Community Banks Key to Economic Growth
4/12/10
EconSouth Explores Economic Resilience in Brazil and Peru
4/9/10
Too Big to Fail after FDICIA
3/31/10
EconSouth Takes a Closer Look at Employment Landscape
3/22/10
Digital Media: A Pathway to Jobs and Investment in Louisiana
3/11/10
What Do Premiums Paid for Bank M&As Reflect? The Case of the European Union
3/8/10
On the Hansen-Jagannathan Distance with a No-Arbitrage Constraint
2/23/10
Bank failures in the Southeast: They ain't what they used to be
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