The latest Community Investments series examines the evolving landscape of AI and its implications for community development.

We show, both theoretically and empirically, that tight financial conditions shift investment toward cheaper but less ...

To better understand the possible impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on the economy, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published the 2025 research brief “On-the-Job Exposure to AI Among ...

Please join us on March 24 for a live presentation on the productivity economics of AI by Nicholas Bloom, the William D. Eberle professor of economics at Stanford University. EERN hosts multiple ...

Community Investments is a publication that brings together real-world insights and research on efforts to expand investment and economic opportunity in lower-income communities. This issue examines ...

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI is reshaping the organizational landscape across various sectors, including among organizations supporting the economic stability and ...

In the months since we brought together members of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to better understand the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, to drive ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

The China Cyclical Activity Tracker, China CAT, is an alternative measure of China’s economic growth based on research in Fernald, Hsu, and Spiegel (2020). The China CAT index measures fluctuations in ...

Supply- and Demand-Driven PCE Inflation updates data on the contributions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation from supply-driven versus demand-driven components. This tool is intended ...

The premier conference for community development is headed to Phoenix! The 2026 program, Innovations in Public-Private Partnership, will highlight strategies for advancing economic opportunity through ...