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A business cycle is the change in overall economic activity of a nation from a period of growth or expansion to a period of contraction or recession.

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Series: SF Fed Blog
Economic Letter Video: Productivity During and Since the Pandemic
Aren S. Yalcin, Brigid Meisenbacher, Huiyu Li, John G. Fernald
Series: Economic Letter
Job Vacancies and Firms’ Labor Market Perceptions
Brandon Miskanic, Marianna Kudlyak
Series: Economic Letter
How Aware Is the Public of Labor Market Conditions?
Brandon Miskanic, Marianna Kudlyak
Series: Working Papers
Macroeconomic Expectations and Cognitive Noise
Yeji Sung
Series: Economic Letter
Are Markups Driving the Ups and Downs of Inflation?
Huiyu Li, Sylvain Leduc, Zheng Liu
Series: Working Papers
How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
Marianna Kudlyak
Series: Working Papers
Distribution of Market Power, Endogenous Growth, and Monetary Policy
Series: Working Papers
How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel
Dmitriy Sergeyev, Thuy Lan Nguyen, Wataru Miyamoto
Series: Economic Letter
Recent and Near-Term Fiscal Policy: Headwind or Tailwind?
Brigid Meisenbacher, Daniel Wilson
Series: Economic Letter
Inflation Expectations, the Phillips Curve, and Stock Prices
Federico C. Nucera, Kevin J. Lansing