Search Banking Research Events Education Region & Community Careers About Us Chicago Fed Insights Results 1 - 10 of 49 Page of Max How To Meet the Post-Pandemic Needs of Detroit’s Black-Led Businesses November 23, 2021 Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Black-led businesses faced unequal access to capital that limited their ability to sustain themselves and grow. But with Black-led businesses nationwide reportedly receiving a disproportionately lower share of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding, especially at the first round of disbursement, the pandemic has cast a spotligh... Read More Charging Ahead: Midwest Autos Face an Electric Future By Caroline Beetz Fenske October 6, 2021 In a virtual event on October 6, 2021, an expert panel discussed the auto industry's technological transformation to electric vehicles (EVs), shared ideas about what firms and workers will likely face during the transition by 2030 and beyond, and identified obstacles to achieving policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through electrification of transport. This blog post summarizes the ... Read More Charging Ahead: The Role of Used BEVs in the Broader Shift to Zero-Emissions Vehicles By Levi Bognar, Ekta Deshmukh, Emma LaGuardia, Thomas H. Klier September 29, 2021 Electric vehicles are receiving lots of attention these days as public policy measures are increasingly encouraging their use. For instance, the White House recently announced a new target of half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. being zero-emissions vehicles by 2030—which would be supported with fuel efficiency and emissions regulations and investments in... Read More Measuring Learning Loss from School Closures During the Pandemic and Beyond By Caroline Beetz Fenske August 19, 2021 Learning Loss and Renewal after the Pandemic (August 10, 2021) was the latest in a series of Project Hometown virtual events hosted by the Chicago Fed. The latest event featured a panel of experts in the field of education and aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of school closures and remote learning on academic achievement and economic opportunities, particularly for students in economi... Read More Detroit’s Fiscal Challenges and Opportunities Now and Post-Pandemic By Caroline Beetz Fenske July 20, 2021 The Chicago Fed's virtual event, “Charting Detroit's Fiscal Future: Challenges and Opportunities,” held on July 14, 2021, is the latest in a series of Project Hometown events aimed at identifying obstacles facing communities in the Seventh District during the pandemic. The event examined Detroit's city government financing to understand how its unique revenue structure has fared during the Covid... Read More Introducing CARTS: A New Index Tracking National Retail Spending By Scott A. Brave, Ross Cole, Michael Fogarty, Ezra Karger, Liam Puknys July 12, 2021 During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S., the speed with which economic activity responded to the spread of the virus and the public policy responses that followed laid bare the need for both accurate and timely measures of consumer spending. In this Chicago Fed Insights blog post, we discuss a new Chicago Fed index called CARTS and its implications f... Read More A First Look at the Employment Response by Industry to Covid-19 Vaccine Take-Up By Scott A. Brave, Stephanie Grove July 1, 2021 In this Chicago Fed Insights blog post, we take a first look at the relationship between industry employment and Covid-19 vaccine take-up. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly vaccinated against Covid-19, the ongoing recovery in the labor market is expected to strengthen. In early 2020, employment was hit hardest in industries where it was either diffic... Read More What Happened to Subprime Auto Loans During the Covid-19 Pandemic? By Tanya Bakshi, Jonathan Rose June 30, 2021 At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, subprime auto loans appeared to be particularly vulnerable to credit quality deterioration potentially arising from pandemic-related economic hardships. For one thing, the delinquency rate on subprime auto loans had risen to a fairly high level in the years leading up to 2020, signaling that many borrowers were already un... Read More Is a Treasury Clearing Mandate the Path to Increased Central Clearing? By Marta Chaffee, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl June 23, 2021 Following stresses in the market for U.S. Treasury securities in March 2020, several observers suggested that increased central clearing of Treasury transactions could help the market function better and called for investigating the costs and benefits of a clearing mandate. This post examines more basic questions: Would structural changes to the market be required to i... Read More Charging Ahead—The Electrification of the Auto Industry By Thomas H. Klier, James Rubenstein June 23, 2021 Lately, not a day goes by without a major player in the auto industry issuing a press release that signals a shift toward electrification. According to the New York Times, as many as 100 electric vehicle (EV) models will be featured in showrooms by 2025.1 All three carmakers with historical ties to Detroit have major plans to develop more EVs. General Motors C... Read More Results 1 - 10 of 49 Page of Max Subscribe Register to receive email alerts when new issues are published. Subscription Signup Email Submit Find Publications By: Find Publications By: Author - Author - Aaronson , Daniel Albouy , David Allen , Carl E. Alter , Kandie Alvarez , Fernando Alvarez , Nahiomy Amromin , Gene Andersen , Torben G. Anderson , Nathan Anderson, Jr. , Joseph B. Arce , Fernando Atkeson , Andrew Baker , Colleen Bakshi , Tanya Bannister , Michael E. Barlevy , Gadi Barrow , Lisa Barsky , Robert Baruah , Sandy K. Behrenwald , Michelle Benzoni , Luca Berry , Michael V. Bickers , Amy Bloesch , Justin Boyle , Jeremiah P. Brave , Scott A. Bromagen , Ellen Brown , Aaron Brunskill , Ric Butters , R. 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