Deepa D. Datta
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View article: Gender Gaps in the Federal Reserve System
Gender Gaps in the Federal Reserve System Open
To better understand the stalled progress of women in economics, we construct new data on women's representation and research output in one of the largest policy institutions—the Federal Reserve System. We document a slight increase in wom…
View article: Measuring Inclusion: Gender and Coauthorship at the Federal Reserve Board
Measuring Inclusion: Gender and Coauthorship at the Federal Reserve Board Open
Relative to diversity, inclusion is much harder to measure. We measure inclusion of women in economics using novel data on coauthoring relationships among Federal Reserve Board economists. Individual coauthoring relationships are voluntary…
View article: Bottlenecks, Shortages, and Soaring Prices in the U.S. Economy
Bottlenecks, Shortages, and Soaring Prices in the U.S. Economy Open
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, sweeping production constraints, combined with surging demand in some industries, have led to shortages, severe congestion, and soaring prices. What will it take for these bottlenecks to resolve an…
View article: Oil, Equities, and a "Nonbinding" Zero Lower Bound: The Monetary Policy Response to COVID-19
Oil, Equities, and a "Nonbinding" Zero Lower Bound: The Monetary Policy Response to COVID-19 Open
We analyze the recent behavior of oil and equity prices in the context of our earlier work, Datta, et al. (2021), which focuses on the previous zero lower bound (ZLB) episode, in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. We find that t…
View article: What is Certain about Uncertainty?
What is Certain about Uncertainty? Open
Researchers, policymakers, and market participants have become increasingly focused on the effects of uncertainty and risk on financial market and economic outcomes. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the many existing measures …
View article: Revisions to the Federal Reserve Dollar Indexes
Revisions to the Federal Reserve Dollar Indexes Open
This note details the construction of the foreign exchange rate indexes and describes the motives for the changes to the methodology.
View article: Oil, Equities, and the Zero Lower Bound
Oil, Equities, and the Zero Lower Bound Open
From late 2008 to 2017, oil and equity returns were more positively correlated than in other periods. In addition, we show that both oil and equity returns became more responsive to macroeconomic news. We provide empirical evidence and the…
View article: Taxonomy of Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility Measures
Taxonomy of Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility Measures Open
A large number of measures for monitoring risk and uncertainty surrounding macroeconomic and financial outcomes have been proposed in the literature, and these measures are frequently used by market participants, policy makers, and researc…