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The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges
- Address:
25 East 77th Street, The Mark Hotel
The Mark Hotel
New York, NY 10075Neighborhood:
Upper East Side
- Cuisine:
Contemporary AmericanPrice: $31 to $50
The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.themarkrestaurantnyc.com/
- Phone: 2126063030x
- Hours of Operation:
Breakfast: Monday - Sunday: 7:00am - 11:00am; Lunch: Monday - Friday: 11:30am - 2:30pm; Dinner: Monday - Sunday: 5:30pm - 11:00pm; Late Night: Monday - Sunday: 11pm - 1am; Brunch: Saturday and Sunday 11:00am - 3:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Global, International, Contemporary American
- Executive Chef: Pierre Schutz
- Dress Code: Smart Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Counter Seating, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Late Night, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: The private Madison Room can accommodate up to 20 guests, and is ideal for both intimate celebrations and high-level business gatherings. The full restaurant is also available for large-scale receptions and seated events of up to 150 guests.
- Private Party Contact: Farah Abad (212)358-0688 x28
- Special Events: Whether you're hosting your next board meeting, an intimate celebration or a large gathering, the Mark provides space for events up to 150 people.
A word from The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges
Join us at The Mark Restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Jean-Georges Vongerichten brings his unbridled passion for market-fresh, simple cooking to The Mark Hotel, renovated and reopened in early 2010. The world-class menu features subtly innovative European classics blended with Jean-Georges' signature global seasonings, and the wine collection,… showcased in a stunning copper and glass wall in the dining room, includes a range of both boutique and familiar food-friendly wines from around the world. The comfortably elegant dining room provides a warm and relaxed setting, fitting for both a neighborhood favorite and a connoisseur's destination.Continued
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The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges reviews from OpenTable diners
156 reviews since June 4, 2014
- Food4.5Service4.2
- Ambiance4.3Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (82)fit for foodies (80)neighborhood gem (59)vibrant bar scene (51)romantic (49)notable wine list (44)great for lunch (42)good for groups (39)hot spot (35)great for brunch (25)late-night find (12)great for outdoor dining (8)kid-friendly (7)scenic view (4)Show More
- Tres manifiqueOpenTable Diner Since 2008Dined on 9/28/2014Convenient for hotel guests and a regular spot for the upper east side crowd, Jean-George's is a find and the kind of upscale dining you seek out repeatedly because it is so consistently excellent. We dined on a Sunday night at a great table in the central dining room, surrounded by couples and families. Our salad and salmon dinner was divine, the fish roasted to perfection and simply served with sautéed spinach and creamy mashed . My mom had caramel ice cream fir dessert and we sipped a good french white. The breakfast is also superior to any hotel I've experienced -soy lattes made to order and stevia included in the sweeteners was satisfying. We ordered yogurt with fruit and poached eggs and everything was seasonal and ripe.Special Features:
- LaurenVIPDined on 9/28/2014We love everything about this restaurant. We have never had a bad meal.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Go to Jean Gorges insteadOpenTable Diner Since 2008VIPDined on 9/27/2014I arrived at 7:35 for a 7:45 reservation. I was not seated till 8:30. I was seated in the bar and a close by guest was speaking so loud to his table it was hard to ignore his constant use if profanity. My server was nice and helped navigate the meal as I have to eat gluten free. The good was good, but the entire experience was one of the worst I've had in NYC.
- A safe betOpenTable Diner Since 2007Dined on 9/25/2014If you are in this area, it is a safe choice. Unfortunately, nothing was wonderful. Lots of staff, but the kitchen was slow and got the order wrong. Chairs were not comfortable.
- One of my favoritesTheatreGoerDined on 9/23/2014there is nothing better than a restaurant that is always consistent - from the food to the staff, to the experience. It's always great.Special Features:
- RemiVIPDined on 9/22/2014While the restaurant ambience is quite good, the dining room was one quarter full, and we were put at a small table for two, even though there were plenty of larger tables which would have been more comfortable. This restaurant is very expensive. I had an appetizer size portion of pasta for $22, and it was lukewarm and mostly pasta, not other added ingredients. Wine prices are ridiculous, and they get six glasses to the bottle! Not a wonderful experience by any means.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- LoveNYCdiningVIPDined on 9/21/2014Took my mother who was celebrating her 90th Birthday. She love the brioche French toast, soft scrambled eggs, bacon extra crispy and the cucumber martini. Perfection per my mother.
- Good food,bad service, very loudBkcouple14Dined on 9/20/2014Great food but took forever to get our main meal. We got there at 8:45 and didn't leave until well past 11. I want to say we waited 30 minutes at least between apps and main course. The sticky sushi was great, shrimp salad, desserts, drinks. Not very romantic as the place is so loud. They sat us right next to the bar initially with waiters butts in our faces and we asked to move which they did and our waiter was nice but the wait for food was just bad. We were starving!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- SuperbOpenTable Diner Since 2010VIPDined on 9/20/2014My friends and I meet in the lovely bar prior to our dinner reservation. A beautiful restaurant and wonderful menu. We had a fantastic dinner. It was a fabulous choice to celebrate my 40th!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Will not return to The MarkNolzeeVIPDined on 9/20/2014Despite having made reservations a month ago, we were seated in the very noisy bar. A small, cramped table began the experience. We arrived at 8:15 and did not receive our entrees until nearly 10:30. Food was just ok...a squash side dish was cold and uninspired. Waiter blamed the kitchen, and manager apologized with a glass of wine, but still a difficult experience.
- Great good, but expensiveApsaraDudeVIPDined on 9/20/2014The food was delicious although the main courses were somewhat uninspiring. The wine was also outrageously overpriced with markups around 4-5 x retail and almost nothing under $100/bottle. Prix fixe menu would also be a good addition, as well as more attentive service.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Upper east hot spotSarabVIPDined on 9/17/2014The bar was full at 7!! Nice maître d set up a perfect table for 6 in the glass roof room. Lovely bright high ceilings, comfortable banquette for 3 on one side, chairs on the other. Very tasty cocktail, yummy ginger margarita...food was all very fresh and well prepared. My gazpacho tasted like it was just picked from the garden. Clean bright flavors, not oily. Fresh hamachi sushi perfect. All the mains perfectly prepared with care and clear tastes. Nothing fussy and weird. That's a relief. Service was very good although wait time between courses was a bit extended. For a special evening I would recommend. Staff helpful with 2 guests with food allergies. definitely pricey...Special Features:
- Enjoyed itNYNYVIPDined on 9/12/2014Nice....excellent service...food was good....would returnSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- not worth the moneyeaterVIPDined on 9/12/2014The food was okay but no better than more moderately priced restaurants. We were first seated in a banquette with a ridge in the middle of the seat against the wall, which is very uncomfortable to sit on. No one should be seated at this table. We moved ourselves one table over. The service was terrible. We waited a while for our main courses. When we finally saw them arriving, my $72 main course was delivered to the table next to us. I would not go back.
- Lunch betterLuvredwineDined on 9/10/2014First time I had dinner and have had lunch many times with clients. I like the menu a lot but service not as good at night, even though wasn't crowded when we got there. We ordered a bottle of wine and took a long time to get it -15 minutes. Otherwise food was good and support wait staff very good.Special Features:
- Absolute perfectionAlexaVIPDined on 9/8/2014The bar scene is sexy, trendy and perfect. One of the best restaurants on the upper east side. The hotel is also exquisite and the decor is top-notch. Overall an exceptional experience! Would definitely go back.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DisappointedDMBCABDined on 9/4/2014Sat outside based on other recommendation. To my surprise in this small space they allowed smoking! A good bottle of white wine arrived warm and was taken away for chilling only to return upon my request each time our glasses were empty. Sever was ernest but disappeared for long periods. Food was good (not great) and over priced. Overall a very disappointing experience after high expectations based on experiences at other JG establishments. When I mentioned this to the maître d, she seemed uninterested. We won't return.
- Great dining experienceComebackDined on 9/2/2014This was my second time at The Mark with business associates, only this time we brought our spouses. We all had a great time. Excellent food and wine list, impecable service, and great ambience.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great MealonthegoDined on 8/29/2014Service was excellent. Meal was well paced. All courses were excellentSpecial Features:
- The MarkNy262Dined on 8/29/2014A Gem in NYC! Weather permitting, The Patio is a perfect spot to enjoy a glass wine or dinner. Food, service and ambiance deserves a 5 star rating from this diner. Plan to return soon!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2004Dined on 8/26/2014The restaurant is lovely. The food was very good and very beautiful the way was presented. The lady who took care of me was WONDERFUL. The only think is the table where I was assigned was very uncomfortable and the chair too.Special Features:
- Another "Home Run" At MarkChristine39Dined on 8/21/2014My friends & I enjoyed another wonderful evening at "The Mark" - The service was EXCELLENT and the food was OUTSTANDING !! One of the restaurant's specialities is "Salmon Pizza" which is a BIG HIT !! We are already looking to spending another FINE DINING evening at your fabulous restaurant !!!!!!Special Features:
- Truly Outstanding!GlennWDined on 8/19/2014Our evening at the Mark was one to remember! Beautiful people and beautifully presented cuisine in a richly elegant atmosphere was wonderful all around. Grilled Octopus and Crispy Sushi appetizers were as good as they looked, and the Veal Milanese was great as well. Service was attentive without being overbearing. Our waiter recommended an excellent wine which I appreciated. Pretty expensive but worth it. I highly recommend and look forward to returning one day!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A favorite go-to place for brunchi82muchDined on 8/17/2014As a creature of habit, The Mark Restaurant is a favorite go-to place for a special brunch. Always consistent, and a pleasant experience. We always start with the cold lobster tails and sushi. The sushi includes a nice mix of flavors and color, all resting on delicately toasted bread-- a nice alternative to the standard rice base. A personal favorite entrée is the Croque-Monsieur (listed as 'Croque M' on the menu). In my opinion, it's one of the best items on the menu. The perfectly toasted bread base makes a delicious vessel to hold the béchamel, add to that, the ham, Gruyère, Herbes de Provance, and topped with a quail egg-- all balance perfectly, and stand out individually. Quite a challenge for such a rich sauce. Brilliant!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- My girlfriend Birthday celebrationGuyanesediningDined on 8/15/2014Thanks to the staff and management at this upscale establishment for assisting me in making my girlfriend a very happy birthday camper. From the exquisite service to spelling her name correctly on the plate made her night very special and made me a brighter star in her eyes. I'll be back (Arnold Schwarzenegger voice)👏Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- nothing specialjupiter10Dined on 8/14/2014They gave us the worst table. Why ? Is it because I was a guest of the hotel, or because I had reserved 3 weeks in advance, or because we are foringers ? For the rest, its just a banal place with no soul.Special Features:
- E2013VIPDined on 8/14/2014Dinner here was fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the crispy sushi, the shrimp salad, and the beef tenderloin. The sushi was fresh and interesting. The shrimp salad was sophisticated and very large and filling. The beef tenderloin was the best steak I have ever had in my life, no kidding. Just delicious, homey food without too much fuss. The waitstaff was attentive without being overbearing. The ambiance here is quite high end. A great place for a special occasion or business dinner.Special Features:
- memorable lunchluv2eatDined on 8/14/2014We had a great lunch. The food was prepared and cooked perfectly. The service was excellent, which made the whole experience satisfying. We look forward to returning.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- We were underdressedBillVIPDined on 8/9/2014My wife and I made a reservation. We walked all over the city then stopped in for dinner. Perhaps we should have changed, it's not a coat/tie place, but it is nice. Bar outside of resturant was very fun. The one inside was more reserved. the service was great . Food was excellent. It is a must go for special occasions.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A Tuesday Night TreatFatmanDined on 8/5/2014Elegantly appointed and staffed with genuinely cordial people, the Mark is a special place. Our food was perfectly prepared and delicious. The service was rapid but not rushed. We'll be back.Special Features:
- happycamperDined on 8/4/2014We are frequent diners at the Mark even though we live across town. we go back because it is so good It has a neigborhoody feel even though it is a first class restaurant that would succeed in midtown. Excellent food, service and ambienceSpecial Features:
- Great as UsualFFABDined on 8/2/2014We are never disappointed here. Had the sea bass( substituted for the snapper) over braised fennel. WOW! I could eat that every day. Real nice Kale salad. Entrees in the $30's-40's. This place is really nice.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great romantic dinnerOpenTable Diner Since 2005Dined on 7/25/2014Food and service were great. Sommelier very helpful.Special Features:
- tries too hardomh66Dined on 7/24/2014One is asked too often whether everything is alright. If it is not, I will let you know. As a rule, I think it a terrible interruption of a meal. NoSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- PamelaDined on 7/23/2014Dining at The Mark Restaurant was a lovely experience. The service was wonderful, and the food simply delicious. Looking forward to my next visit.Special Features:
- FantasticLoveNYCdiningVIPDined on 7/20/2014The Brioche French Toast with roasted peaches was out of this world. Other very notable dishes were the Russ and Daughters Smoked Salmon pizza, Eggs Benedict with Ham, and the soft scrambled eggs. The cucumber martini's were also extremely good. Enjoyed by All. Can't wait to go back again.Special Features:
- LovelyOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 7/19/2014Delicious dinner, wine was exceptional, plenty of space at the table......not overly crowded and at 9pm it was quiet enough to be able to talk to each other. I love the food and dining experience here, however for a romantic Saturday night date I'll probably pick a different table next time not in the main dining room.....Special Features:
- Dinner with DaughtersLouisvilleDined on 7/19/2014One wish I had while visiting New York with my teenage daughters was to expose them to fine dining experiences. After a day at the Guggenheim taking in all of the fantastic art we also had lunch there. Which was topped off with gelato in Central Park. After a walk on Fifth Avenue they asked about dinner. Last minute I reserved a table at the Mark Jean-George's. When we arrived we were welcomed with open arms. Dinner was a work of eatable art & the service was endearing. My daughters ordered Caesar salad which was fresh & crisp, pasta with sumptuous meatballs. I ordered beef carpaccio with delectable regianno shavings that landed on my palate to be quickly met by an effervescent parade of Proseco. It was a marvelous experience. MerciSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- datenomnomVIPDined on 7/18/2014went on a date here and it was very nice. perfect for a nice dinner with someone special or even a big group to celebrate Great drinks!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 7/17/2014Disappointing did not live up to name, but convenient & easySpecial Features:


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Madonna was very vocal in her support of jailed Russian female punk collective Pussy Riot , and now that its members are out of prison, she continues to support them. She'll introduce two of the collective's members at an Amnesty International concert event February 5 in Brooklyn, NY.
As previously reported, the lineup for the concert, called Bringing Human Rights Home, includes Colbie Caillat , The Fray , Imagine Dragons and Lauryn Hill , among other acts. Madonna said in a statement on her website, "I am honored to introduce my fellow freedom fighters Masha and Nadya from Pussy Riot. I have admired their courage and have long supported their commitment and the sacrifices they have made in the name of freedom of expression and human rights."
Masha and Nadya were jailed in Russia in 2012 for "hooliganism." Their crime? They had performed what they called a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral as a protest against Russian president Vladimir Putin .
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Former University of Southern Mississippi Head Football Coach Ellis Johnson is headed to Auburn University as the defensive coordinator. Johnson will join Gus Malzahn, who Auburn named its new head coach on Tuesday.
Southern Miss fired Johnson on Nov. 27, after the team finished the 2012 season 0-12.
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The United States moved on to its seventh straight World Cup appearance, beating regional rival Mexico 2-0 Tuesday night on second-half goals by Eddie Johnson and Landon Donovan before a raucous red-white-and-blue-clad crowd that stood and chanted from start to finish.
After withstanding Mexican pressure for the first 20 minutes, the U.S. settled into the match and got the breakthrough in the 49th minute when Johnson outjumped defender Diego Reyes to meet Donovan's corner kick 8 yards out and head the ball past frozen goalkeeper Jesus Corona.
With Mexican shifting to an offense-minded 3-4-3 formation, the U.S. scored in the 78th following a throw in when Mix Diskerud threaded the ball across the goalmouth. Clint Dempsey touched it as it went by to Donovan, who poked it in from 2 yards.
U.S. players, many carrying large American flags on sticks, celebrated their win with a lap around the field, saluting the crowd the whole way. Then they went to the locker room to wait out the Honduras game. About 1,000 fans stuck around to watch on the videoboard, hoping for another party.
Following wins over Mexico in qualifiers by identical 2-0 scores at Columbus Crew Stadium in 2001, 2005 and 2009, the U.S. Soccer Federation picked the same venue for this year's match. The capacity crowd of 24,584 taunted the Mexicans with chants of "Dos a cero!" and "You're not going to Brazil!"
Fans were so loud during "The Star-Spangled Banner" that anthem singer Kayleigh Schofield was forced to alter her tempo to match that of the crowd.
Johnson nearly scored off Donovan's cross in the third minute of the second half, but the pass was just ahead of him.
A minute later, the U.S. took just its second corner kick of the match. Jermaine Jones and Johnson both broke in from behind the penalty spot, and Mexico was slow to react as Johnson scored in 12th goal in 21 qualifying appearances. He was mobbed by teammates near the U.S. bench as fans set off a smoke bomb.
Donovan's goal, increasing his national team record to 57, set off a nonstop singalong for the closing minutes of the match.
Dempsey missed a penalty kick in second-half injury time, just before the final whistle.
Dealing with an injury to midfielder Michael Bradley and yellow-card suspensions of defender Matt Besler, midfielder Geoff Cameron and forward Jozy Altidore, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann had to make several changes from Friday's 2-1 loss at Costa Rica.
Fabian Johnson shifted from midfield to the back line, and Clarence Goodson was among four new starters, joined by midfielders Kyle Beckerman and Alejandro Bedoya, and forward Eddie Johnson. Fabian Johnson strained his left hamstring and was replaced by Michael Parkhurst for the start of the second half.
Mexico dominated the first 20 minutes of the opening half and the last five, forcing goalkeeper Tim Howard to make several sprawling saves.
The first came seven minutes in, when American left back DaMarcus Beasley scuffed a clearance and nearly put the ball in his own goal.
Howard made a diving parry on Christian Gimenez in the 19th, and then two minutes later pushed Gimenez's free kick over the crossbar. Howard was forced into another diving save on Giovani Dos Santos in the 44th, and then dived to knock a header over the line in injury time after Bedoya pulled down Dos Santos with a sliding tackle, earning a yellow card.
The first good U.S. chance was when Donovan's free kick was knocked down Omar Gonzalez in the 14th, and Jermaine Jones volleyed over the crossbar.
Eddie Johnson's header off Donovan's corner kick was saved by goalkeeper Jesus Corona in the 32nd.
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Consumer expert Clark Howard's column appears here each Thursday in conjunction with Deal Spotter, a weekly print section in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Three new developments in the car world promise cheap rides in the near future.
First up, the Tata Nano that sells for less than $3,000 in India will be coming to the United States with an increased price tag. For the U.S. market, it will be designed to be a cheap urban runabout that costs less than $8,000 and should be in production by 2015.
The increased cost includes the expense of making government-required safety and emissions tweaks.
At $8,000, it will be the cheapest car sold in America, competing mainly with used cars and motorcycles. Of course, nobody's yet sure if Americans will turn their noses up at the Nano, or if it will create a new car class.
At the other end of the spectrum, Lincoln's new MKZ comes in a hybrid version that's priced at no mark-up from the gas engine version. Both versions cost $36,000 so that means no additional payback period buying the hybrid versus the gas engine.
Ford sure is causing heartache for Toyota. Its Lincoln gets better fuel economy than a Lexus hybrid — and it's cheaper.
Also, Ford's new C-Max Energi has excited a lot of people. It's a hybrid minivan that drives the first 20 miles each day as an electric car and then becomes a gas/electric hybrid until the next charge.
The Energi comes in two flavors: hybrid for $25,000 or a plug-in hybrid for $29,000 ($33,000 minus $4,000 in federal tax credits).
The plug-in hybrid just earned an EPA rating of 100 mpg. By contrast, the typical car today gets about 22 mpg. Expressed in today's gas prices, getting 100 miles per gallon would be like paying 70 cents a gallon at the pump.
Meanwhile, the hybrid gets 47 mpg, which is the equivalent of $1.75 at today's gas prices.
Find more answers to your consumer questions at Clark's website. And get more savings tips from Clark's previous blog posts.
– Clark Howard — Save More, Spend Less, Avoid Rip-offs — for the Atlanta Bargain Hunter blog
November 1st, 2012
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I've never seen, heard what the cost of charging a hybrid's cost difference makes. Although you save at the pump, what price will be paid for charging and the average saving for electric over gas?
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Never really have understood the "I'm gonna save money by buying a new, gas sipping, car" mentality. I bought a 1995 Olds 5 years ago for 1,800. Put about 1500 in it over the years to keep it on the road. Even though it averages 22ish mpg I am still saving tons of money over any new car. Gas just doesn't cost enough to truly save. If you are buying a new car anyway thats all fine and well. If you want to save money… bottom line, you should buy used, very, very used. Just like the thought it will save the environment, well I can tell you making a gigantic battery is not especially green. Reusing my old vehicle however is very green.
November 1st, 2012
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I'm always amazed at people who buy these cars and then complain about the price of gas. A relative of mine bought a luxury sedan (Lexus) and then complains about the price of a fill up because it takes premium gas. If you knew that, why did you buy it?
One time when gas was nearing $4, I saw a woman with a huge SUV parked on the side of the road. She was holding a sign (panhandling) that said she didn't have gas money to get home. Well DUH! I wanted to shout out the window, "Well, I guess you should have bought a more economical car, then" but I restrained myself.
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Eastleigh played very very well with only ten men for most of the second half. But a late winner sees Concord take the spoils. Brilliant result for the Beach Boys.
Eastleigh played very very well with only ten men for most of the second half. But a late winner sees Concord take the spoils. Brilliant result for the Beach Boys.
Strevens with a chance but he heads straight at the keeper! The referee blows up! Concord win!
Dan Cowley chose his subs well today! Great management.
Concord are looking to consolidate possession late on. They have won a freekick in the far corner. Who bets they keep it there?
The excellent Sam Collins is replaced by Joe Gardener.
Fantastic cross by White from the left finds substitute Cawley and his looping header beats the keeper and finds the far corner.
It's a Concord goal! Amazing!
Only minutes to go. Seemed as though the points will be shared. Probably a fair result although Eastleigh have done very well with only 10 men.
Poor ball evades everyone and its a throw on the far side.
Southam bursts into the box but is denied by a fantastic block by Glozier. Corner is cleared by King but the ball comes back and it's another corner.
Collins and White link up brilliantly but the latter's shot is just beyond Stokes. So close to a winner!
Terrific pass by Stokes finds Cawley but his touch is poor and the keeper claims.
Jamie Collins has talked himself into the referee's book.
Green with a fierce shot but it's straight at Butler.
Ten minutes to go at the Aspect Arena. This could go either way.
Southam is booked for a late tackle on Ogilvie.
Concord havent had many chances this afternoon but have been clinical with the opportunities they have created.
It's an equaliser and it is substitute Tony Stokes. His header at the near post flies past Flitney like a bullet. Great goal.
Goal for Concord!
Collins near post drive is looking for Goodacre. Corner.
Collins shoots from 30 yards once again but the Concord man sees his near post shot tipped wide. First real effort of the second half for the Beach Boys.
Concord sub - Steve Cawley comes on for Banton.
Ben Wright has been replaced by Craig McAllister for Eastleigh.
Disaster for Concord. Ben Strevens scores after a mix up between Gordon and Butler. The keeper can't claim the ball and leaves an easy tap in for the forward.
It's a goal for Eastleigh!
Concord sub - the excellent Taylor Miles is replaced by Tony Stokes.
Ball is cleared by Collins. Away side still look the better team with 10 men.
Wight and Glozier have been called to the referee after some pushing and shoving. No cards shown though. Eastleigh have a corner.
Looks as though Dillon will slot in at centre back with Spence moving to right midfield and Beckwith at right back.
Change for Eastleigh - Fleetwood is replaced by Chris Dillon.
Ogilvie with a very speculative shot from 30 yards which is a long way off target.
Eastleigh still the team pressing after going down to ten men. Green has been a very good outlet this afternoon in the left back position.
A very strong tackle with King and the ref had no hesitation in producing the red card. A melee afterwards is well dealt with by the man in the middle.
Straight red card for Connolly!
Banton is finding is increasingly difficult to fend of the Eastleigh centre backs. Stokes an option on the bench.
Miles has been impressive in midfield for Concord this Fternoon. Very composed but with some strong driving runs in the midfield.
Connolly is in again but he cannot bring the ball under control and the keeper collects. Away shouts for a penalty there for a tug.
Wright is freed in the left hand channel and his left foot shot is across Butler and into the net.
Equaliser for Eastleigh!
Collins ball in is flicked behind for a corner. The ball is right on top of the keeper who clears very well under pressure.
Eastleigh have begun the second half the same way as the first. Nice slick passing and they have a freekick on the far side.
Eastleigh kick off
Eastleigh out first. Warming up in the centre circle.
Teams back out.
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Terrific first half of football. Well contested and a brilliant goal as well. All the glasses have been collected from the Eastleigh fans.
Concord 1-0 Eastleigh
Great turn by Fleetwood in the box and he appeared to be pulled down. Nothing given and the ball is cleared.
Good play between Banton and White but the latter's deflected shot is saved comfortably.
Collins and Ogilvie have switched sides for the last five minutes of the half. Not sure what that is down to.
Collins outswinger is met by King but over the bar.
Concord can be very pleased with this first half. They have held their shape well despite being pulled all over the place by the Eastleigh front three. They have a corner to end the half.
Beckwith in a tangle with Banton in the box but nothing given. He was certainly obstructed but probably not enough for a penalty.
So close to a second. Ogilvie breaks down the left and his low cross is just beyond Banton. The Beach Boys have really stepped up their game in the last ten minutes.
Seems the break in play hasn't served Eastleigh well. The fans have quitened down and the players are struggling.
It has come out of absolutely nothing but what a goal to break the deadlock! Miles finds Collins in the right hand channel and his left footed shot from the corner of the box is bent beautifully past the despairing Flitney. Concord lead!
Unbelievable goal by Sam Collins!
Collins with a fierce shot that is off target. First shot of the day for Concord though - it has taken more than 30 minutes to come.
Seems as though some visiting fans have been told to leave. Game back on.
The away side may be performing but the visiting fans certainly aren't. A glass has been thrown at Butler. Amazingly Danny Cowley has come onto the pitch to reason with the away fans. They have been told to move from behind the goal.
Another chance for the visitors. Southam sprints forward but his cross shot just evades the lunge of Wright. The ball goes narrowly wide.
King and Goodacre have been excellent at the back for Concord. Although the away side have had a number of chances they have made some vital blocks.
Green's freekick is poor but goes straight through the Concord wall and is collected by Butler.
Cowley in late on Wright and Eastleigh have a freekick in a good position. Pressure is growing.
Eastleigh corner after good work by Connolly but the danger is cleared.
Strevens and Wright link up really well and Strevens is in! Fair play to Butler who is off his line in a flash to collect at the striker's feet.
Sam Collins links up well with Banton but the latter can't quite reach the long ball and Flitney can clear.
Saying that, Connolly jumps very well at the far post to find skipper Southam but his drive flies over.
Banton with space on the left but his through ball just evades Ogilvie who had burst from his own half. Concord have looked much more compact since conceding that early chance.
Banton is looking increasingly isolated up top. Very much a nippy frontman and he is being buffeted a bit by Beckwith and Todd early on.
Concord have their first spell of retained possession. Cowley looking to organise the midfield. Wants more from midweek hero Ogilvie.
Freekick for Concord. Collins delivers but straight into the arms of Flitney.
Fleetwood and Collins with a neat exchange of passes but nothing come of it. Moments later the first real chance. Ben Wright sidesteps the defender but shoots over when he should have scored.
Glozier is sticking very tight to the dangerous Strevens. The Spitfires frontman is starting to show his frustration.
West Ham youngster Miles gets on the ball for the first time and feeds the ball into the channel for Banton. However the ball is cleared.
Strevens with another chance but Butler does well to smother the show from close range.
Concord havent got out of their half so far. Gordon concedes another corner.
Green delivers to Strevens but his flick only finds the side netting at the near post. Strong start from the away side.
Lots of noise from the visiting fans this afternoon. Supporting their team from behind the goal Eastleigh are attacking. Fleetwood wins a corner.
Good early pressure from Eastleigh. Southam with a free kick to be delivered from the right, it finds Todd at the far post but goes behind.
Concord kick off.
Lovely sunny day on Concord Island as the locals calls it. Pitch is boggy in places but aside from that conditions couldn't be much better.
Teams are out of the tunnel.
Concord will play in yellow and blue. Eastleigh in blue and white. Updates to resume from 3pm.
Plenty of goals running through the away side here. Also - former Fulham and Grays Athletic 'keeper Ross Flitney is between the sticks for Eastleigh this afternoon.
Eastleigh XI: Ross Flitney, Dan Spence, Michael Green, Jamie Collins, Dean Beckwith, Chris Todd, Reece Connolly, Glen Southam, Ben Strevens, Ben Wright, Stuart Fleetwood
Subs: McAllister, Noice, Odubade, Dillon, Wilson
Concord Rangers XI: Jamie Butler, Leon Gordon, Danny Glozier, Nicky Cowley, Steve King, Paul Goodacre, Taylor Miles, James White, Zane Banton, Sam Collins, Gary Ogilvie
Subs: Lampe, Rees, Stokes, Cawley, Gardener
Lampe, Harris, Cawley and Stokes drop out of the side. Loan signings Miles and Banton start.
Teams to follow and and as expected there are changes for Concord.
Good afternoon and welcome to the Echo's live text coverage of Concord Rangers vs Eastleigh in the Skrill South.
This match comes less than two days after The Beachboys reached the Essex Senior Cup final although the home side will make a number of changes for this high-profile clash against second placed Eastleigh.
Concord are expected to hand debuts to two loan signings from Conference side Luton Town. 17-year-old striker Zane Banton and 18-year-old midfielder Ian Rees were ineligible for Thursday's cup win but are available to Danny Cowley today.
With Concord playing every three days for the rest of the month, Cowley is expected to rotate his squad this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Eastleigh come into this game after a midweek draw at Eastbourne Borough. However, Richard Hill's side has goals running through it, with Odubade, Fleetwood and McCallister scoring 27 goals between them this campaign.
In October Concord picked up a very impressive point in the reverse fixture although Eastleigh have designs on automatic promotion after a fantastic run of form.
However, with only one win in their last four away league matches and playing a side looking for their fourth win on the bounce The Spitfires can be sure they will face a tough test today.
Please leave your feedback with @echoluke this afternoon.


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SAINT Patrick's Day was celebrated in style yesterday in Yarnton.
Yarnton Residential and Nursing Home in Rutten Lane was decked out with green balloons, bunting and decorations, with staff and residents donning their finest emerald attire for the day. Residents tried their hand at making and decorating shamrocks to add to the care home's art wall.
Jennie Barnes, 89, said: "I very much enjoyed today and became engrossed in my artwork.
"It was really satisfying."
There were also readings of Irish poetry and folk stories, before a traditional Gaelic sing-along – with an Irish jig or two thrown in for good measure.
Joyce Ushaw, 79, said: "I loved the whole day and found it very informative. I particularly enjoyed the Irish tunes."
Activities leader Polly Archer said: "All of our residents enjoyed celebrating St Patrick's Day. To round things off, we had a good old sing-along to favourites such as Danny Boy and Molly Malone."
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Working Papers
Stimulating discussion and critical comment on research in progress.
- The Effect of Local Housing Ordinances
- The housing and economic crises have exerted a strong and lingering impact on housing markets across the nation. In this paper, we assess the degree to which local anti-blight policies have infl uenced housing market outcomes following the crises. The analysis is performed for cities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. We measure outcomes that characterize market distress and that may be influenced by local housing ordinances including foreclosure, bulk sales, flipping, vacancy, and tax delinquency. Using matching procedures on linked data containing property, loan, and transaction characteristics, we compare outcomes across properties in regulated and unregulated municipalities. Point of sale inspections and vacancy registrations both decrease the probability that homes are flipped (resold within two years). We find that point of sale inspections are positively associated with foreclosures, property tax delinquency, and sales prices below the tax assessed value. The inspections may be revealing the need for expensive repairs in some homes, which could push borrowers underwater and into foreclosure. We find evidence that vacancy registration requirements do lower vacancy. The discussion around policies for housing market recovery, for the most part, has addressed efforts at the federal level. This analysis integrates in discussion of efforts and policies arising at the local level. (PDF)
- Privately Optimal Contracts and Suboptimal Outcomes in a Model of Agency Costs
- This paper derives the privately optimal lending contract in the celebrated financial accelerator model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999). The privately optimal contract includes indexation to the aggregate return on capital, household consumption, and the return to internal funds. Although privately optimal, this contract is not welfare maximizing as it leads to a sub-optimally high price of capital. The welfare cost of the privately optimal contract (when compared to the planner outcome) is significant. A menu of time-varying taxes and subsidies can decentralize the planner's allocations. (PDF)
- Leverage, Investment, and Optimal Monetary Policy
- We study optimal monetary policy in an economy where firms' debt overhangs lead to under-investment and under-production. The magnitude of this debt-induced distortion varies over the business cycle, rising significantly during recessions. When debt is contracted in nominal terms, this distortion gives rise to a balance sheet channel for monetary policy. In the presence of real and financial shocks, the monetary authority faces a trade-off between inflation and output gap stabilization. The optimal monetary policy rule prescribes that the anticipated component of inflation should be set equal to a target level, while the unanticipated component should rise in response to adverse shocks, smoothing the debt overhang distortion and the output gap. (PDF)
- Financial Stress Index: A Lens for Supervising the Financial System
- This paper develops a new financial stress measure (Cleveland Financial Stress Index, CFSI) that considers the supervisory objective of identifying risks to the stability of the financial system. The index provides a continuous signal of financial stress and broad coverage of the areas that could indicate it. The construction methodology uses daily public market data collected from different sectors of financial markets. A unique feature of the index is that it employs a dynamic weighting method that captures the changing relative importance of the different sectors of the financial system. This study shows how the index can be applied to monitoring and analyzing financial system conditions. (PDF)
- The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies across OECD Countries
- We show that the inability of a standardly calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential solutions to this puzzle. To illustrate this, we show that the solution proposed in Hagedorn and Manovskii (2008) continues to deliver counterfactually low volatility in countries where labor-productivity persistence and/or steady-state job-finding rates are sufficiently low. Moreover, the model's ability to generate high enough volatility depends on vacancy-filling-rate levels that seem counterfactual outside the U.S. (PDF)
- Fiscal Multipliers under an Interest Rate Peg of Deterministic vs. Stochastic Duration
- This paper revisits the size of the fiscal multiplier. The experiment is a fiscal expansion under the assumption of a pegged nominal rate of interest. We demonstrate that a quantitatively important issue is the articulation of the exit from the policy experiment. If the monetary-fiscal expansion is stochastic with a mean duration of T periods, the fiscal multiplier can be unboundedly large. However, if the monetary-fiscal expansion is for a fixed T periods, the multiplier is much smaller. Our explanation rests on a Jensen's inequality type argument: the deterministic multiplier is convex in duration, and the stochastic multiplier is a weighted average of the deterministic multipliers. The quantitative difference in the two multipliers also arises in a model with capital, and in the baseline nonlinear model. However, the differences between the two is less pronounced in the nonlinear models. (PDF)
- Inflation and Output in New Keynesian Models with a Transient Interest Rate Peg
- Recent monetary policy experience suggests a simple diagnostic for models of monetary non-neutrality. Suppose the central bank pegs the nominal interest rate below steady state for a reasonably short period of time. Familiar intuition suggests that this should be modestly inflationary, and a reasonable model should deliver such a prediction. We pursue this simple diagnostic in several variants of the familiar Dynamic New Keynesian (DNK) model. Some variants of the model produce counterintuitive inflation reversals where the effect of the interest rate peg can switch from highly inflationary to highly deflationary for only modest changes in the length of the interest rate peg. Curiously, this unusual behavior does not arise in a sticky information model of the Phillips curve. (PDF)
- Assessing the Evidence on Neighborhood Effects from Moving to Opportunity
- This paper shows that treatment effects of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility program should not be interpreted as evidence on neighborhood effects. In a standard joint model of potential outcomes and selection into treatment, defining treatment as moving with an MTO voucher generates a model of program effects, while defining treatment as moving to a high-quality neighborhood generates a model of neighborhood effects. I state the assumptions necessary for using the random assignment of vouchers in a housing mobility program as an instrument to identify neighborhood effects. I then show that the literature using program effects to learn about neighborhood effects implicitly imposes dubious versions of these assumptions. (PDF)
- Bretton Woods, Swap Lines, and the Federal Reserve's Return to Intervention
- This paper describes the United States' first line of defense against shortcomings in the Bretton Woods system, which threatened the system's continuation as early as 1960. The exposition describes the Federal Reserve's use of swap lines both to provide cover for central banks' unwanted dollar exposures, thereby forestalling claims on the U.S. gold stock, and to supply dollar liquidity to countries facing temporary balance-of-payments deficits, thereby bolstering confidence in their parities. As suggested by the expansion and growing use of the swap lines, the operations failed to distinguish between temporary and fundamental disequilibrium forces. In substituting temporary for fundamental adjustments, the lines ultimately proved inadequate. (PDF)
- Measures beyond the College Degree Share to Guide Inter-regional Comparisons and Workforce Development
- Raising the share of adults with college degrees in a region or jurisdiction is a nearly universal goal of regional policymakers. They believe that education, as summarized by this statistic, is the cause of increasing employment, productivity, and wages. Using statistics estimated from the decennial censuses and the American Community Survey, this analysis demonstrates how different measures would suggest different rankings of more successful versus less successful metro areas. The "place-of-birth" variable in Census data enables a disaggregation of the origins of the skilled and unskilled adult populations. This provides insight into whether high-skilled regions developed talent among natives or attracted talent nationally or globally. I find that metros in states that are successful at getting their natives through college have experienced lower growth in their native and migrant graduate populations. With a few exceptions, metro areas with high degree shares or large improvements in their degree share have not grown their graduate population at unusually high rates. The numbers suggest that metro areas held up as exemplars of educational attainment have achieved this distinction to a large extent by being unattractive to nongraduates. (PDF)
- Land Bank 2.0: An Empirical Evaluation
- In 2009, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which contains Cleveland and 58 other municipalities, created the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation. This land bank was established to acquire low-value properties, mitigate blighted housing, help stabilize neighborhoods, and slow the decline of property values. As of September 2013, the land bank had acquired 3,405 properties and demolished 1,853 structures. This empirical study evaluates the effectiveness of the land bank by estimating spatially corrected hedonic price models using sales near the land bank homes. In the six months before they are purchased by the land bank, the distressed properties are estimated to lower the sale price of nearby homes (within 500 feet) by 5.2 percent. The negative externality from the distressed properties decreases to 4.4 percent once the land bank takes possession. A vacant lot created by a land-bank house demolition reduces the values of nearby homes by 2.4 percent. By reducing the negative externalities of distressed properties, the land bank has recovered about $3.8 million in value for homes sold during the study period. We estimate that tax collections were $3.2 million higher than they otherwise would have been. The land bank?s largest impact takes the form of preserved value for homes that did not sell during the study period, and we estimate this to be approximately $156 million. [Revised September 2014] (PDF)
- Bridging the Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital
- The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund's impact on credit union activity, using hitherto little studied U.S. Treasury data. The CDFI Fund grants increase lending at credit unions by 3%. For every dollar awarded, 45 additional cents are loaned out to borrowers in the first year, and up to an additional $1.60 is loaned out within three years. Delinquent loan rates also increase slightly. Our panel results are supported by a broadband regression discontinuity analysis. Politics does not seem to play a role in allocating funding. (PDF)
- The Panic of 1907
- This paper summarizes the academic literature on the Panic of 1907 in the United States. Despite over 100 years of separation, research by financial economic historians continues to uncover important data and underexploited connections between institutions to improve present day understanding of a watershed economic event—one that preceded the successful movement to establish a central bank in the United States in 1913. (PDF)
- Real-Time Nowcasting with a Bayesian Mixed Frequency Model with Stochastic Volatility
- This paper develops a method for producing current-quarter forecasts of GDP growth with a (possibly large) range of available within-the-quarter monthly observations of economic indicators, such as employment and industrial production, and financial indicators, such as stock prices and interest rates. In light of existing evidence of time variation in the variances of shocks to GDP, we consider versions of the model with both constant variances and stochastic volatility. We also evaluate models with either constant or time-varying regression coefficients. We use Bayesian methods to estimate the model, in order to facilitate providing shrinkage on the (possibly large) set of model parameters and conveniently generate predictive densities. We provide results on the accuracy of nowcasts of real-time GDP growth in the U.S. from 1985 through 2011. In terms of point forecasts, our proposal is comparable to alternative econometric methods and survey forecasts. In addition, it provides reliable density forecasts, for which the stochastic volatility specification is quite useful, while parameter time-variation does not seem to matter. (PDF)
- Did Local Lenders Forecast the Bust? Evidence from the Real Estate Market
- This paper shows that mortgage lenders with a physical branch near the property being financed have better information about home-price fundamentals than nonlocal lenders. During the real estate run-up from 2002-06, home price growth negatively correlates with the share of loans made by local lenders, namely lenders with a branch in the respective county. Moreover, home prices fell less from 2006-09 in areas where more of the loans were made by local lenders. California foreclosure rates during the crisis are negatively correlated with local lending during the run-up. A 1 standard deviation increase in local loans is associated with 5 fewer foreclosures for every 1,000 houses. When local lenders retain loans for their portfolio rather than securitizing, the results for both home price growth and foreclosures are even stronger. (PDF)
- Learning and Occupational Sorting
- This paper develops and estimates a model of occupational choice and learning that allows for correlated learning across occupation specific abilities. In the labor market, workers learn about their potential outcomes in all occupations, not just their current occupation. Based on what they learn, workers engage in directed search across occupations. The estimates indicate that sorting occurs in multiple dimensions. Workers discovering a low ability in their current occupation are signicantly more likely to move to a new occupation. At the same time, workers discovering a high ability in some occupations are more likely to move up the occupational ladder into managerial occupations. By age 28 this sorting process leads to an aggregate increase in wages similar to what would occur if all workers were endowed with an additional year of education. (PDF)
- The Ins and Outs of Unemployment in the Long Run: Unemployment Flows and the Natural Rate
- This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved-components model and identify the cyclical and trend components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time-varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the natural rate. I identify a sharp decline in the outflow rate—the job finding rate—since 2000, which was partly offset by the secular decline in the inflow rate—the separation rate—since the 1980s, implying a relatively stable natural rate, currently at 6 percent. Numerical examples show that slower labor reallocation, along with the weak output growth, explains most of the persistence in unemployment since the Great Recession. Contrary to the business-cycle movements of the unemployment rate, a significant fraction of the low-frequency variation can be accounted for by changes in the trend of the inflows, especially prior to 1985. Finally, I highlight several desirable features of this natural rate concept that makes it a better measure than traditional counterparts. These include statistical precision, the significance of required revisions to past estimates with subsequent data additions, policy relevance and its tight link with the theory. (PDF)
- Who's Afraid of Good Governance? State Fiscal Crises, Public Pension Underfunding, and the Resistance to Governance Reform
- This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the funding and governance provisions of 12 public pension plans that are a mix of state and local plans of various funding levels. We find that none of the plans in our study satisfy the best practices that have been established by expert panels, but also that the strength of a plan's governance provisions does not appear correlated with the plan's financial health. Our most important finding is that, regardless of the content of a plan's governance provisions, such provisions are almost never effectively enforced. This lack of enforcement, we theorize, has a significant, detrimental impact on plan funding and governance. If neither plan participants nor state taxpayers are able to effectively monitor and challenge a state's inadequate funding or improper investment decisions, public plans are very likely to remain underfunded. We conclude by offering several possible reform options to address the monitoring and enforcement problems made clear by our study: automatic benefit haircuts, automatic tax increases, a low-risk investment requirement, and market monitoring through the use of modified pension obligation bonds. (PDF)
- Believe Only What You See: Credit Rating Agencies, Structured Finance, and Bonds
- This paper identifies rating verifiability as a key difference that explains why credit rating agencies (CRAs) failed to mitigate information asymmetries in the structured finance market but succeeded in the bond market. Two infinitely repeated models are analyzed. In the first, the rating is unverifiable, and there is no equilibrium where the CRA reveals its information. In the second, the rating is verified with some probability, and full information revelation is guaranteed for any verification probability, when the CRA is patient enough. The interaction between verification probability and CRA patience is also analyzed. (PDF)
- Business Cycles and Financial Crises: The Roles of Credit Supply and Demand Shocks
- This paper explores the hypothesis that the sources of economic and financial crises differ from those of non-crisis business cycle fluctuations. We employ Markov-switching Bayesian vector autoregressions (MS-BVARs) to gather evidence about the hypothesis on a long annual U.S. sample running from 1890 to 2010. The sample covers several episodes useful for understanding U.S. economic and financial history, which generate variation in the data that aids in identifying credit supply and demand shocks. We identify these shocks within MS-BVARs by tying credit supply and demand movements to inside money and its intertemporal price. The model space is limited to stochastic volatility (SV) in the errors of the MS-BVARs. Of the 15 MS-BVARs estimated, the data favor a MS-BVAR in which economic and financial crises and non-crisis business cycle regimes recur throughout the long annual sample. The best-fitting MS-BVAR also isolates SV regimes in which shocks to inside money dominate aggregate fluctuations. (Published in Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2014.) (PDF)
- Mortgage Companies and Regulatory Arbitrage
- Mortgage companies (MCs) do not fall under the strict regulatory regime of depository institutions. We empirically show that this gap resulted in regulatory arbitrage and allowed bank holding companies (BHCs) to circumvent consumer compliance regulations, mitigate capital requirements, and reduce exposure to loan-related losses. Compared to bank subsidiaries, MC subsidiaries of BHCs originated riskier mortgages to borrowers with lower credit scores, lower incomes, higher loan-to-income ratios, and higher default rates. Our results imply that precrisis regulations had the capacity to mitigate the deterioration of lending standards if consistently applied and enforced for all types of intermediaries. Revised April 2014. (PDF)
- A Tractable Estimator for General Mixed Multinomial Logit Models
- The mixed logit is a framework for incorporating unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models in a general way. These models are difficult to estimate because they result in a complicated incomplete data likelihood. This paper proposes a new approach for estimating mixed logit models. The estimator is easily implemented as iteratively re-weighted least squares: the well known solution for complete data likelihood logits. The main benefit of this approach is that it requires drastically fewer evaluations of the simulated likelihood function, making it signicantly faster than conventional methods that rely on numerically approximating the gradient. The method is rooted in a generalized expectation and maximization (GEM) algorithm, so it is asymptotically consistent, efficient, and globally convergent. (PDF)
- The Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Autoregressive Models with Alternative Specifications of Time-Varying Volatility
- This paper compares alternative models of time-varying macroeconomic volatility on the basis of the accuracy of point and density forecasts of macroeconomic variables. In this analysis, we consider both Bayesian autoregressive and Bayesian vector autoregressive models that incorporate some form of time-varying volatility, precisely stochastic volatility (both with constant and time-varying autoregressive coefficients), stochastic volatility following a stationary AR process, stochastic volatility coupled with fat tails, GARCH, and mixture-of-innovation models. The comparison is based on the accuracy of forecasts of key macroeconomic time series for real-time post?War-II data both for the United States and United Kingdom. The results show that the AR and VAR specifications with widely used stochastic volatility dominate models with alternative volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree. (PDF)
- Trimmed-Mean Inflation Statistics: Just Hit the One in the Middle
- This paper reinvestigates the performance of trimmed-mean inflation measures some 20 years since their inception, asking whether there is a particular trimmed-mean measure that dominates the median CPI. Unlike previous research, we evaluate the performance of symmetric and asymmetric trimmed-means using a well-known equality of prediction test. We find that there is a large swath of trimmed-means that have statistically indistinguishable performance. Also, while the swath of statistically similar trims changes slightly over different sample periods, it always includes the median CPI—an extreme trim that holds conceptual and computational advantages. We conclude with a simple forecasting exercise that highlights the advantage of the median CPI (and trimmed-mean estimators in general) relative to other standard measures in forecasting headline inflation. (PDF)
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- Estimating Contract Indexation in a Financial Accelerator Model
- This paper addresses the positive implications of indexing risky debt to observable aggregate conditions. These issues are pursued within the context of the celebrated financial accelerator model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999). The principal conclusions include: (1) the estimated level of indexation is significant, (2) the business cycle properties of the model are significantly affected by this degree of indexation, (3) the importance of investment shocks in the business cycle depends upon the estimated level of indexation, and (4) although the data prefers the financial model with indexation over the frictionless model, they have remarkably similar business cycle properties for non-financial exogenous shocks. (PDF)
- Fiscal Multipliers under an Interest Rate Peg of Deterministic vs. Stochastic Duration
- This paper revisits the size of the fiscal multiplier. The experiment is a fiscal expansion under the assumption of a pegged nominal rate of interest. We demonstrate that a quantitatively important issue is the articulation of the exit from the policy experiment. If the monetary-fiscal expansion is stochastic with a mean duration of T periods, the fiscal multiplier can be unboundedly large. However, if the monetary-fiscal expansion is for a fixed T periods, the multiplier is much smaller. (PDF)
- Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record
- Do steep recoveries follow deep recessions? Does it matter if a credit crunch or banking panic accompanies the recession? Moreover, does it matter if the recession is associated with a housing bust? We look at the American historical experience in an attempt to answer these questions. The answers depend on the definition of a financial crisis and on how much of the recovery is considered. But in general recessions associated with financial crises are generally followed by rapid recoveries. We find three exceptions to this pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery. The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s. One factor we consider that may explain some of the slowness of this recovery is the moribund nature of residential investment, a variable that is usually a key predictor of recessions and recoveries. (PDF)
- The Relationship between City Center Density and Urban Growth or Decline
- In this paper we contrast the spatial patterns of population density and other demographic changes in growing versus shrinking MSAs from 1980 to 2010. We find that, on average, shrinking MSAs show the steepest drop in population density near the Central Business District (CBD). Motivated by this fact, we explore the connection between changes in population density at the core of the MSA and MSA productivity. We find that changes in near-CBD population density are positively associated with per capita income growth at the MSA-level. (PDF)
- Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity
- This paper uses an overlapping-generations dynamic general equilibrium model of residential sorting and intergenerational human capital accumulation to investigate the effects of neighborhood externalities. In the model, households choose where to live and how much to invest toward the production of their child's human capital. The return on parents' investment is determined in part by the child's ability and in part by an externality from the average human capital in their neighborhood. We use the model to test a prominent hypothesis about the concentration of poverty within racially-segregated neighborhoods (Wilson 1987). We first impose segregation on a model with two neighborhoods and match the model steady state to income and housing data from Chicago in 1960. Next, we lift the restriction on moving and compute the new steady state and corresponding transition path. The transition implied by the model qualitatively supports Wilson's hypothesis: high-income residents of the low average human capital neighborhood move out, reducing the returns to investment in their old neighborhood. Sorting decreases citywide human capital and produces congestion in the high-income neighborhood, increasing the average cost of housing. On net, average welfare decreases by 3.0 percent of presorting steady state consumption, and 0.01 percent of households starting in the low-income neighborhood receive positive welfare. (PDF)
- Diagnosing Labor Market Search Models: A Multiple-Shock Approach
- We construct a multiple shock, discrete time version of the Mortensen-Pissarides labor market search model to investigate the basic model's well-known tendency to underpredict the volatility of key labor market variables. In addition to the standard labor productivity shock, we introduce shocks to matching efficiency and job separation. We conduct two set of experiments. First, we estimate the joint probability distribution of shocks that simultaneously satisfy the observed data and the first-order conditions of the multiple-shock model, and then simulate its properties. Although the multiple-shock model generates significantly more volatility while preserving the Beveridge curve relationship, it generates counterfactual implications for the cyclicality of job separations. Using a business cycle accounting approach, we design the second set of experiments to isolate the sources of model incompleteness and show that the model requires significant procyclical and volatile matching efficiency and counterfactually procyclical job separations to render the observed data without error. We conjecture that the basic Mortensen-Pissarides model lacks mechanisms to generate sufficiently strong labor market reallocation over the business cycle, and suggest nontrivial labor force participation and job-to-job transitions as promising avenues of research. NOTE: This is a substantial revision of working paper 08-13, which is a substantial revision of working paper 07-20. (PDF)
- Approximating High-Dimensional Dynamic Models: Sieve Value Function Iteration
- Many dynamic problems in economics are characterized by large state spaces, which make both computing and estimating the model infeasible. We introduce a method for approximating the value function of high-dimensional dynamic models based on sieves and establish results for the: (a) consistency, (b) rates of convergence, and (c) bounds on the error of approximation. We embed this method for approximating the solution to the dynamic problem within an estimation routine and prove that it provides consistent estimates of the model?s parameters. We provide Monte Carlo evidence that our method can successfully be used to approximate models that would otherwise be infeasible to compute, suggesting that these techniques may substantially broaden the class of models that can be solved and estimated. (PDF)
- Bank Balance Sheet Dynamics under a Regulatory Liquidity-Coverage-Ratio Constraint
- This paper presents a dynamic model of a bank's optimal choices of imposing a binding liquidity-coverage-ratio (LCR) constraint. Our baseline balance-sheet dynamics starts with portfolio separation and no LCR constraint. Under a scenario in which regulators prohibit banks from applying securities to fulfill the LCR constraint, portfolio separation continues to hold, but deposit holdings depend on the extent to which the LCR constraint is binding. When banks are allowed to apply securities toward satisfying the constraint, portfolio separation can break down and lead to ambiguous effects on optimal dynamic loan and deposit paths. Our results indicate that under special cases in which portfolio separation holds, the LCR constraint affects bank-sheet dynamics in ways not previously recognized. As regulators move forward in implementing Basel III style LCR, it is imperative to understand the effects of the LCR constraint on bank balance-sheet dynamics. (PDF)
- Evidence of Neighborhood Effects from MTO: LATEs of Neighborhood Quality
- This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. Our results stand in such sharp contrast to the current literature because our analysis focuses on outcomes of the subpopulation induced by the program to move to a higher quality neighborhood, while previous analyses have focused on outcomes of either the entire population or the subpopulation induced by the program to move to any neighborhood. We propose and implement a new strategy for identifying heterogeneous transition-specific effects that exploits the identification of the idiosyncratic component of an ordered choice model. We estimate Local Average Treatment Effects (LATEs) of the change in quality most commonly induced by MTO vouchers, between the first and second deciles of the national distribution of neighborhood quality. Although MTO vouchers induced much larger changes in neighborhood quality than standard Section 8 vouchers, these LATEs only pertain to a subpopulation representing under 10 percent of program participants. (PDF)
- Epilogue: Foreign-Exchange-Market Operations in the Twenty-First Century
- Foreign-exchange operations did not end after the United States stopped its activist approach to intervention. Japan persisted in such operations, but avoided overt conflict with its monetary policy. With the onset of the Great Recession, Switzerland has transacted in foreign exchange both for monetary and exchange-rate purposes, and key central banks have used swap facilities to extended their lender-of-last-resort functions. Developing and emerging-market economies continue to intervene, but their actions may hamper the development of their own foreign-exchange markets. China's undervalued exchange rate is producing inflation and real appreciation, despite China's efforts to sterilize its reserve accumulation. (PDF)
- Common Drifting Volatility in Large Bayesian VARs
- The estimation of large vector autoregressions with stochastic volatility using standard methods is computationally very demanding. In this paper we propose to model conditional volatilities as driven by a single common unobserved factor. This is justified by the observation that the pattern of estimated volatilities in empirical analyses is often very similar across variables. Using a combination of a standard natural conjugate prior for the VAR coefficients and an independent prior on a common stochastic volatility factor, we derive the posterior densities for the parameters of the resulting BVAR with common stochastic volatility (BVAR-CSV). Under the chosen prior, the conditional posterior of the VAR coefficients features a Kroneker structure that allows for fast estimation, even in a large system. Using US and UK data, we show that, compared to a model with constant volatilities, our proposed common volatility model significantly improves model fit and forecast accuracy. The gains are comparable to or as great as the gains achieved with a conventional stochastic volatility specification that allows independent volatility processes for each variable. But our common volatility specification greatly speeds computations. (PDF)
- Within-city Variation in Urban Decline: The Case of Detroit
- When a city experiences a decline in income or population, do all neighborhoods within the city decline equally? Or do some neighborhoods decline more than others? What are the characteristics of the neighborhoods that decline the most? We answer these questions by looking at what happened to neighborhoods within Detroit as the city experienced a sharp decline in income and population from the 1980s to the late 2000s. We find patterns of changes in income and population that are consistent with the model and empirical patterns of gentrification presented in Guerrieri, Hartley, and Hurst (2011), only playing out in reverse. (Data description) (PDF)
- Privately Optimal Contracts and Suboptimal Outcomes in a Model of Agency Costs
- This paper derives the privately optimal lending contract in the celebrated financial accelerator model of Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999). The privately optimal contract includes indexation to the aggregate return on capital and household consumption. Although privately optimal, this contract is not welfare maximizing as it exacerbates fluctuations in real activity. The household's desire to hedge business cycle risk, leads, via the financial contract, to greater business cycle risk. The welfare cost of the privately optimal contract (when compared to the planner outcome) is quite large. A countercyclical tax on lender profits comes close to achieving the planner outcome. (PDF)
- The Impact of Recovery Efforts on Residential Vacancies
- Legislation aimed at stabilizing housing markets since the recession has focused on providing funding to acquire and remediate foreclosed and abandoned homes or providing financial assistance and incentives to purchase homes. Cuyahoga County has received over $100 million in such funds since 2008. We investigate the impact of these funds on vacancy rates. We examine neighborhoods in Cuyahoga County where National Stabilization Program dollars were spent and find that the program helped reduce vacancies in neighborhoods where properties were primarily purchased for consumption purposes. (PDF)
- How Inflationary Is an Extended Period of Low Interest Rates?
- Recent monetary policy experience suggests a simple test of models of monetary non-neutrality. Suppose the central bank pegs the nominal interest rate below steady state for a reasonably short period of time. Familiar intuition suggests that this should be inflationary. But a monetary model should be rejected if a reasonably short nominal rate peg results in an unreasonably large inflation response. We pursue this simple test in three variants of the familiar dynamic new Keynesian (DNK) model. All of these models fail this test. Further some variants of the model produce inflation reversals where an interest rate peg leads to sharp deflations. (PDF)
- Community-Based Well Maintenance in Rural Haiti
- This paper evaluates a new technology for providing water. The technology, developed by Haiti Outreach (HO), is distinguished by a program training communities to manage wells. The effects of training are identified by comparing HO?s wells with wells refurbished by HO but subsequently managed under the status quo. There are large differences in functionality after only one year (8.7 percentage points). For policymakers choosing between standard and community-based interventions, I quantify the tradeoff between equity (sporadically providing water to all) and efficiency (consistently providing water to most). I interpret the estimated tradeoff to strongly favor community-based interventions. (PDF)


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Monahan attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He moved to New York City and contributed to the alternative weekly newspaper New York Press and the magazines Talk, Maxim and Spy. In 1997, Monahan won a Pushcart Prize for his short story "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo". Monahan was an editor at Spy during the magazine's final years, where he would come in at the close of the monthly issue to rewrite the articles and improve the jokes.
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People hoping that Anchorman: The Legend Continues has a harder edge when it hits theaters this December may get their wish. Though, they might have to travel to the Philippines for it. In a recent chat with Adam McKay about the impending Blu-ray release of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which he oversaw and produced, he reveals that Paramount, unhappy with the R rating that film went in front of audiences with, is toying with the notion of releasing both R and PG-13 rated versions of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 in theaters, depending on which market it opens in internationally. He then revealed that there are discussions about doing the same thing with Anchorman: The Legend Continues.
The director, who is in the process of wrapping up production on Anchorman: The Legend Continues also talked about fan expectations, and the inevitable haters that will loudly voice their opinions on opening day. In the wake of Arrested Development and its cruel reception by some fans (a show that has been gone exactly the same amount of time since the last Anchorman), it's a forgone conclusion that Anchorman: The Legend Continues is in danger of bringing the same disappointment and hate. Which Adam McKay actually welcomes.
I don't think people go to a movie not to like it. Whenever I'm in a movie theater, I am there! I have spent two hours of my time to get there. I am very careful when I go to the movies, because I don't want to see anything I'm not going to like. Because I don't have the time to go. I think comment sections on web pages are a whole different category. They are designed for hate. People thoughtlessly throw it out. It's like a moment of power in print that they get to have. Long ago, I learned never to read the comment section. No good will ever come of it. (Laughs)"
When it was pointed out that those comment section haters have become the critics, Adam McKay gave a very considerate response.
What do you think? Is it inevitable that people will be disappointed with Anchorman: The Legend Continues no matter how good it is?
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues was released December 18th, 2013 and stars Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Applegate, Meagan Good, James Marsden, Josh Lawson. The film is directed by Adam McKay.


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On Thursday September 6th at 12:15, I will be participating in a panel at Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. The panel is entitled "Overcriminalization" and will feature:
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Scott Schoeneweis will likely not end the Mets' season in 2008. Well, I guess if the Arizona Diamondbacks traded him to the Houston Astros next year sometime, hypothetically it could happen. But that would seem unlikely. In two seasons with the Mets, Schoeneweis did little to distinguish himself, not pitching well in either 2007 or 2008. He could get left-handed hitters out, but that's it, and on a team that already had about 5 specialists too many last season, one of them was clearly expendable; why not the one that gave up the run that eliminated the Mets from the playoffs?
I shouldn't be too hard on Schoeneweis; he didn't belong in the game for that batter (who was right-handed), he was suffering from some real personal trauma with his newborn baby at the time (and of course, I wish him nothing but the best with that), but…I mean, as a Mets fan, you can't help but be disappointed by the way Schoeneweis pitched. Plain and simple, he just wasn't a good pitcher most of the time. He was marginally better in 2008, but he still wasn't somebody you felt comfortable with when he was on the mound, particularly if the batter was right-handed. He won't be missed, but I still wish him well, particularly on the family front.
In exchange, the Mets got right handed reliever Connor Robertson. Robertson has been a strikeout pitcher in the minor leagues who, in limited big league innings, hasn't shown much. Granted, when I say "limited," I mean "nine big league innings," but still. He's 27 years old, so he's not young, but he could turn into a useful reliever at some point. It does feel like right now, the Mets bullpen is very right-handed, with Feliciano being the only lefty reliever likely to pitch in 2009. With the Phillies picking up another left-handed bat, you'd think that the Mets might be looking to pick up another lefty reliever at some point, but we will see what happens.


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IBM is calling the new business unit "IBM Environmental Product Lifecycle Management" but I'm going to call it the IBM Big Green Evangelical Party. The service covers pretty much everything a major corporation could want to green up their operations including:
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- Designing products so that they're easy to refurbish and reuse or disassemble and recycle
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- Choosing materials that are renewable, recyclable and non-toxic
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Of course, if I was any manufacturing company in the world, I'd be calling up IBM right now to get on their waiting list. But all I make is blog posts, and while I'm sure I could be more efficient...I don't really have to real viagra pharmacy prescription worry too much about hazardous substances.
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If it's paid for, then okay, they've amassed a certain degree of knowledge in this area so why not profit from it. Because let's face it, that's what they are interested in - profit. In profiting, they will do some good.
If it's a free service... well, BRAVO! About time some corporation led the way into an age of http://sws-bl.com/viagra-online-without-prescription global cooperation in our battle for the climate. A free service, while obviously limited in the number of clients it could handle, would mean businesses of every size and shape could 'green up'. That would have an incredible global effect.
Somehow, I think I profit will be at the heart of this endeavour. However, it's still green advice to help the environment, so good stuff.
Steve N. Lee
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