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Working Papers

These papers are written by Richmond Fed economists, in some cases in collaboration with outside economists. They represent work prepared for later publication or presentation to professional meetings. They are circulated in this series for purposes of discussion and comment. A list of forthcoming and published papers is available on our externally published research page.

April 2024, No. 24-04

The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery

Parag Mahajan, Nicolas Morales, Kevin Shih, Mingyu Chen and Agostina Brinatti

April 2024, No. 24-03

Weathering the Storm: Supply Chains and Climate Risk

Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

March 2024, No. 24-02

Sectoral Development Multipliers

Francisco Buera and Nicholas Trachter

March 2024, No. 24-01

Real Estate Commissions and Homebuying

Borys Grochulski and Zhu Wang

December 2023, No. 23-13

Dealer Costs and Customer Choice

Lucas B. Dyskant, André C. Silva and Bruno Sultanum

November 2023, No. 23-12

Heterogeneous Districts, Interests, and Trade Policy

Kishore Gawande, Pablo M. Pinto and Santiago Pinto

November 2023, No. 23-11

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Andreas Hornstein, Marios Karabarbounis, André Kurmann, Etienne Lalé and Lien Ta

November 2023, No. 23-10

An Alternative Measure of Core Inflation: The Trimmed Persistence PCE Price Index

September 2023, No. 23-09

Charting the Course: How Does Information about Sea Level Rise Affect the Willingness to Migrate?

Laura Bakkensen, Quynh Nguyen, Toan Phan and Paul Schuler

May 2023, No. 23-08

Unemployment Insurance when the Wealth Distribution Matters

Facundo Piguillem, Hernán Ruffo and Nicholas Trachter

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