Services Producer Price Indices (experimental) – Second quarter 2009

Financial Services in Swedish Price Indices

The paper deals with issues that have been found important for the treatment of financial services in Swedish price indices. In particular the definition of the unit transaction for fund and stock-brokering services with charge proportional to transaction value is crucial. Such services have more than a negligible extent in Sweden, also for consumers, and different definitions of the unit trans...

Bank Credit Standards (Second Quarter 2009 Business Review)

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. 1 Most observers view the expansion of high-risk mortgage loans between 2004 and 2006 as a particularly dramatic example of a widespread decline in lending standards. While the research on this episode is expanding rapidly, the e...

Residential Housing and Personal Bankruptcy (Second Quarter 2009 Business Review)

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. 1 The economic Recovery Act of 2008, which was enacted on July 30, 2008, established the Federal housing Finance Agency (FhFA) by combining the Office of Federal housing enterprise Oversight (OFheO) and the Federal housing Financ...

Producer price highlights, 1998

Mountain Monitor-3rd Quarter 2009