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Discovering the Universe: Measuring the Role of Finance Companies in the U.S. Economy
Contributor(s): Federal Reserve Board (Author)
ISBN: 1503223671     ISBN-13: 9781503223677
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $12.30  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2014
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- Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy
Physical Information: 0.08" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.25 lbs) 38 pages
 
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Credit to consumers and business is critical to the efficient functioning of the U.S. economy, and finance companies are a key source of such credit. Every five years, the Federal Reserve conducts a two-part survey: the Census of Finance Companies (CFC) to identify the universe of such firms and the Survey of Finance Companies (SFC) to obtain balance-sheet data from firms identified in the CFC. In 2010, this survey underwent a major revision that addressed both the absence of a comprehensive list frame and low response rates. A follow-up study of nonrespondents to the CFC was conducted to obtain information on the operating status of the unobserved firms, and their status as a finance company under the definitions of the CFC. An important complication was the presence of complicated tangles of firms within a corporate hierarchy, whereas the CFC intended to include the consolidated assets of the highest-level parent finance company in such a hierarchy; the follow-up was designed to provide information to estimate the extent of such relationships in the initial sample data. This paper describes the way the CFC and the follow-up were used to construct an estimate of the universe of finance companies.