Activity in the oil and gas sector further expanded in third quarter 2026, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

I’m delighted to welcome all of you to the Dallas Fed this evening. The perspectives you share with us are invaluable. You ...

The Texas economy continued to expand in August. Employment rose, the unemployment rate ticked down and wages increased. The ...

Texas service sector activity held steady in September, according to business executives responding to the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey. The revenue index, a key measure of state service sector ...

The Dallas Fed conducts the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey monthly to obtain a timely assessment of the state's factory activity.

Thank you for the introduction, Santiago [Pérez]. Welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. We serve the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, encompassing the state of Texas, northern Louisiana and ...

Abstract: This paper studies how human capital shapes the economic geography of development. We propose a model in which human capital acquisition costs vary across space, and regions with higher ...

Abstract: We study how international trade has affected U.S. inflation dynamics. We develop a multi-region New Keynesian model of an open monetary union in which regional Phillips curve slopes depend ...

Bankers responding to the third-quarter survey reported deteriorating conditions across most of the Eleventh District. The heat and lack of rain are negatively affecting yields. Ranchers are culling ...

Latest update of the Dallas Fed's monthly forecast of annual state employment growth. The Dallas Fed conducts monthly surveys of over 300 Texas businesses in the manufacturing and service sectors. The ...

*The Lubbock metropolitan statistical area (MSA) encompasses Cochran, Crosby, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock and Lynn counties. Texas Tech University and agriculture have shaped Lubbock’s development since ...

This conference provided a North American economic outlook with economists from the United States, Canada and Mexico discussing the USMCA review process and its impact on regional economic integration ...