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Kristin F. Butcher is an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kyung H. Park is a senior associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The authors thank Dan Sullivan, Anna Paulson, Bhashkar Mazumder, and seminar participants at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for helpful comments. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of Wellesley College or any other entity. Introduction and summary
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