State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Information the San Francisco Fed collects from businesses and community sources for the Beige Book provides timely insights ...

Both the magnitude and the pace of monetary policy tightening in the euro area during 2022-23 were historically large and ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will host its 2025 Asia Economic Policy Conference (AEPC) on November 20-21, 2025, ...

President Daly shared her latest insights on both the US and Alaska economy with Alaska Public Media news host Ava White.

A new data interactive and a recent webinar from the SF Fed Community Engagement and Analysis team shed light on homeownership trends in the 12th District ...

Submissions due by August 8, 2025, for the Annual Conference Micro-Macro Labor Economics, to be held in San Francisco on Friday, December 12, 2025.

The extent to which either supply or demand factors drive inflation has important implications for economic policy. I propose a framework to decompose inflation into supply- and demand-driven ...

Wildfires have been a concern in California for decades. The intensity of these events has increased recently, with particularly large and destructive fire seasons between 2018 and 2021. Analysis ...

Monetary policy is often regarded as having only temporary effects on the economy, moderating the expansions and contractions that make up the business cycle. However, it is possible for monetary ...

Data from the Federal Reserve’s Diary of Consumer Payment Choice shows that cash remains the most used payment instrument in 2016 accounting for 31 percent of all consumer transactions. This study ...