FRED has just expanded the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis by over 20,000 series. This data set contains annual and quarterly frequencies, sector-based industry break-downs, real series, nominal series, and quantity indexes.
From Economic Synopses: The risk of default for oil-producing economies.
From Page One Economics: A primer on financing business and public projects.
The Board of Governors recently announced changes to several data series from the H.15 releases. Because of these changes, the St. Louis Fed will cease updating the following Selected Interest Rate and Interest Rate Spread series: Moody’s corporate bonds, eurodollar deposits, interest rate swaps, state and local bonds, and conventional mortgages.
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the September 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.
FRED has just added 3,382 quarterly series from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages survey produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The data are also in GeoFRED.) This dataset represents average weekly wages for each metropolitan statistical area including a breakdown by private establishments and federal, state, and local government establishments. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis produces the seasonally adjusted version of the series. More details on the seasonal adjustment process can be found in the series notes.
Insight on econ themes & data. Recently, part-time workers, the rise of renters, and Halloween candy.
Read about the effects of foreclosures, China’s savvy government, a Taylor rule for public debt, and policy for oil exporters.
From Page One Economics: What’s the right amount of research before buying a used car? Learn more about asymmetric information, adverse selection, and moral hazard.
From Economic Synopses: Reasons why more of the labor force is employed but less capacity is being used—plus related FRED data.
