Economic Brief

Acemoglu, Daron, Vasco M. Carvalho, Asuman Ozdaglar, and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, "The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations," Econometrica, September 2012, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 1977-2016. (A previous version is available online.)

Blanchard, Olivier Jean, and Lawrence F. Katz, "Regional Evolutions," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1992, no. 1, pp. 1-75.

Caliendo, Lorenzo, Fernando Parro, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte, "The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Working Paper No. 13-14R, Revised November 2014.

Courtois, Renee, "How's Business? The Role of the Beige Book in Fed Policymaking," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus, Summer 2009, pp. 5-7.

Foerster, Andrew T., Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte, and Mark W. Watson, "Sectoral versus Aggregate Shocks: A Structural Factor Analysis of Industrial Production," Journal of Political Economy, February 2011, vol. 119, no. 1, pp. 1-38. (A working paper version is available online.)

Gabaix, Xavier, "The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations," Econometrica, May 2011, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 733-772. (A working paper version is available online.)

Harris, Matthew, Raymond E. Owens, and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte, "Using Manufacturing Surveys to Assess Economic Conditions," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Fall 2004, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 65-92.

Owens, Raymond E., and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte, "How Well Do Diffusion Indexes Capture Business Cycles? A Spectral Analysis," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, Fall 2005, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 23-42.