No. 82-2, April 2020

Index

• Do Central Banks Respond  Timely to Developments in the Global Economy?
• Estimating Excess Sensitivity and Habit Persistence in Consumption Using Greenbook Forecasts
• Further Results on the  Weak Instruments Problem of the System  GMM  Estimator in Dynamic Panel Data Models
• Identification of Economic Shocks by Inequality Constraints in Bayesian Structural Vector Autoregression
• Income Tax Progressivity: Trends and Implications
• Investment, Tobin's Q, and Cash Flow Across Time and Frequencies
• Issue Information
• Leverage Dynamics and the Burden of Debt
• Testing Ricardian Equivalence with the Narrative Record on  Tax Changes
• The Beveridge Curve  Across US States: New Insights From a Pairwise  Approach
• What Drives Commodity Returns? Market, Sector or Idiosyncratic Factors?