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Regional Dissent: Local Economic Conditions Influence FOMC Votes
U.S. monetary-policy decisions are made by the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Seven of these members, …
Anton Bobrov, Rupal Kamdar, Mauricio Ulate
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The Beginning of the Trend: Interest Rates, Profits, and Markups
Recent highly cited research uses time-series evidence to argue the decline in interest rates led to a large rise in economic profits …
Anton Bobrov, James Traina
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Why Are Overall Profits Outpacing Financing Costs?
Since the 1980s, decreasing interest rates have reduced the cost of financing for publicly traded corporations, which in turn has …
Anton Bobrov, Carter Davis, Alexandre Sollaci, James Traina
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Global Market Discipline during Recent Policy Tightening
Financial market discipline, in the form of movements in yields charged on sovereign debt of emerging economies, during the 2021 onset …
Anton Bobrov, Mark M. Spiegel
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