Podcast: Seeding the Abilene area for growth in an ever-drier climate
Taylor County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension agent Steve Estes discusses with Dallas Fed economist Laila Assanie the challenges of perpetually coping with little rain in the Big Country, where agriculture and ranching drive the area economy, including that of Abilene.
April 11, 2025
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity rose in March after declining in February, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
March 31, 2025
Weighing Texas economic resilience amid tariffs, workforce challenges
Ray Perryman, principal of Waco-based The Perryman Group, has been an observer of the Texas economy for more than four decades. He offers his views of what has propelled Texas since the 1980s oil bust and the state’s future prospects, and he recounts how he grew his economics firm.
March 07, 2025
Mexico, U.S. and China offer an evolving ‘triangular’ trade relationship
Enrique Dussel Peters, a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México and coordinator of the university’s Center for Chinese–Mexican Studies, discusses trade flows between the U.S., Mexico and China and their prospects.
March 03, 2025
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity fell in February after rising notably in January, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
February 24, 2025
Industrial building boom is bigger in Texas, signaling growth wave
Texas is undergoing a boom in technology and energy-related construction that follows a pandemic-era warehouse and logistics building surge.
February 05, 2025
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity picked up notably in January, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
January 27, 2025
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity increased in December, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
December 30, 2024
Research Department Working Papers
An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments’ Trade Linkages in Global Value Chains
Global value chains (GVC) are a pervasive feature of modern production, but they are hard to measure. Using U.S. Census microdata, this paper develops novel measures of the linkages between U.S. manufacturing establishments’ imports and exports. The paper documents three new GVC patterns.
December 27, 2024
Research Department Working Papers
Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Economy Perspective
This paper studies the evolution of manufacturing value added shares in 11 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries through the lens of an open economy model of structural change.
December 24, 2024