Central-Banks
Amol Agrawal: Mostly Economics
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Reason for decline in inflation in last 40 years: Monetary policy or Asia joining world economy production?
William White (Former BIS chief economist and DG of Bank of Canada) says we need to ask five questions on world economy: Fostering a sustainable recovery, in spite of such preconditions, requires answering five questions. First, what public policies have led us to the current unsustainable state of affairs – what I call ‘policy preconditions’ – and should be avoided in the future? Second, what future shocks threaten sustainable growth? Third,...
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Kraken cryptocurrency exchange of US: gets a banking licence!
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Vaccine finance and epidemics: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
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Macroeconomic risks across the globe due to the Spanish Flu
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50 years of Friedman’s article on social responsibility of business
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How Croatia adopting Euro could impact Bosnia and Herzegovina..
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Similarities between Yap stone and Bitcoin
Atlanta Fed
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Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons?
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Faster Wage Growth for the Lowest-Paid Workers
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Is Job Switching on the Decline?
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Private and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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New Evidence Points to Mounting Trade Policy Effects on U.S. Business Activity
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Digging into Older Americans’ Flat Participation Rate
Bank of Canada
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Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins will not seek second term
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Available as: PDF The Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada announced today that Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins informed them that she will not seek a second term. Her current...
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Supporting growth and greater opportunity
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Bank of Canada maintains commitment to current level of policy rate, continues program of quantitative easing
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The imperative for public engagement
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Closing remarks
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Opening remarks
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Our COVID-19 response: Large-scale asset purchases
Bank of International Settlement
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Price search, consumption inequality, and expenditure inequality over the life-cycle
BIS Working Papers | No 886 | 18 September 2020 by Yavuz Arslan, Bulent Guler and Temel Taskin PDF full text (952kb) | 40 pages Summary Focus Very often, different vendors sell the same goods at very different prices. If poorer households are willing to...
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Credit supply driven boom-bust cycles
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BIS Quarterly Review, September 2020
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BIS research papers 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Retailer markup and exchange rate pass-through: Evidence from the Mexican CPI micro data
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Inflation at risk in advanced and emerging market economies
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Closing the loop: AML/CFT supervision of correspondent banking
Bank Of Japan
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Signing of Bilateral Swap Arrangement between Japan and Malaysia
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Statement on Monetary Policy
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Average Interest Rates by Type of Deposit
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T-Bills Purchased by the Bank of Japan
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Japanese Government Bonds Held by the Bank of Japan
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Loan Disbursement under the Fund-Provisioning Measure to Stimulate Bank Lending (September 2020)
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Bank of Japan Accounts (September 10)
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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Cochrane on debt II
Yesterday, I posted a reply to John Cochrane's Sept 4 post on the national debt. John alerted me to his Sept 6 update, which I somehow missed. Given this update (together with some personal correspondence), let me offer my own update. John begins with an equation describing the flow of government revenue and expenditure. With a debt/GDP ratio of one, the sustainable (primary) deficit/GDP ratio is given by g - r, where g = growth rate of NGDP...
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Cochrane on why debt matters
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Why the Fed Should Create a Standing Repo Facility
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Kalecki on the Political Aspects of Full Employment
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A conversation with Eric Tymoigne on MMT vs SMT
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Blanchard and Farmer on the Phillips Curve
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Does the Phillips Curve Live in Europe?
ECB Press Releases
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Isabel Schnabel: Unequal scars – distributional consequences of the pandemic
SPEECHSpeech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the panel discussion “Verteilung der Lasten der Pandemie” (“Sharing the burden of the pandemic”), Deutscher Juristentag 2020Frankfurt am Main, 18 September 2020The coronavirus (COVD-19) pandemic is the most severe crisis in post-war history.[1] It threatens the health of the population, poses enormous challenges to the healthcare system and is causing significant...
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Christine Lagarde: Interview with Challenges
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ECB’s Governing Council says that exceptional circumstances justify leverage ratio relief
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Isabel Schnabel: Interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP)
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Fabio Panetta: Healing after the pandemic: supporting and sustaining the recovery
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Christine Lagarde: Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Governors of the Arab Central Banks and Monetary Authorities
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Yves Mersch: Supervisory action in times of crisis and the limits of the ECB’s prudential mandate
FRED
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Staying put during the pandemic: Fewer miles in trains, planes, and automobiles
[embedded content] An earlier FRED Blog post covered the trends and cycles in the average number of miles per person traveled on the road. More recently, we’ve seen changes in all kinds of travel as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The graph above uses data from the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics on the number of miles traveled each month by people riding trains, planes, and automobiles. A rail...
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Early economic effects from “safer at home” practices : What Census data from the Quarterly Services Survey can show us
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The increasing appetite for air conditioning : Tracking changes in the output of electric and gas utilities
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The pandemic’s impact on North American GDP: Checking on the neighbors
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What’s happened so far with the return on safe and liquid assets?
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Seasonality in food prices: A bountiful harvest of FRED data
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Retail sales in a pandemic recession : Diverse tales by sectors
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Money Supply 2014-07-29 13:41:38
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ECB caught up in economists’ spat
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TLTRO: how well has the ECB targeted its loans?
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Live blog: Mario Draghi’s monthly ECB press conference
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Japan’s inflation expectations: glass half empty?
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Carney’s (old) new normal
iMFdirect
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IMF Lending During the Pandemic and Beyond
By Robert Gregory, Huidan Lin, and Martin Mühleisen Português In the face of unprecedented uncertainty and the severe economic impact triggered by COVID-19, the Fund continues to adapt its lending. At the same time, it aims to ensure realistic targets, uphold the credibility of programs, and foster national ownership. To date, the Fund has provided financial assistance, mainly through emergency lending and precautionary lending tools, to about...
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Charting a Path for a Resilient Recovery in Sub Saharan Africa
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Chart of the WeekTrade as a Tool for an Efficient Recovery
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Supporting Migrants and Remittances as COVID-19 Rages On
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Guilt, Gender, and an Inclusive Recovery: A Lesson from Japan
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How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
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Healing the Fractures of the Global Economy
Impact Evaluations
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Weekly links May 10: why CCTs aren’t enforced before elections, when evidence isn’t used, digitalizing data, and more…
On Let’s Talk Development, results from tax compliance trials in Kosovo show some small increases from reminders, but also highlight the challenges of implementation, with many people not receiving their assigned treatment (e.g. half the letters not making it to recipients, less than one-quarter of emails opened). The CSAE coder’s corner has Meredith Paker sharing ...
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Labor Data and Quantity/Quality Tradeoffs
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A different take on “Targeting the Ultra-Poor” programs
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Weekly links May 3: reducing survey non-response or perhaps it is ok, s-values, an award for incentives, and more…
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Gender bias and getting grants
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Capturing cost data: a first-mile problem
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Weekly links April 26: Submissions fees coming to a journal near you, recursive rankings, business mentoring, stop your workers quitting by letting them complain, and more…
JP Koning: Moneyness
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Different bitcoins different prices
Not all bitcoins are the same. If someone steals 100 bitcoins from a cryptocurrency exchange and tries to sell them, they'll have to price them at a discount to the market price in order to compensate the buyer for the risk of laundering them. Different bitcoins different prices.This isn't just a bitcoin phenomenon. There are two wholesale markets for banknotes, too. The legitimate one is comprised of banks, retailers, and cash-in-transit...
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18 things about Tether stablecoins
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The case for banning gold mining
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Bitcoin is an account, not a token
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How the pandemic has clogged the global economy with paper currency
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Pennies as state failure
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Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
New York Fed
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Did State Reopenings Increase Consumer Spending?
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Sebastian Heise, Davide Melcangi, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Giorgio Topa The spread of COVID-19 in the United States has had a profound impact on economic activity. Beginning in March, most states imposed severe restrictions on households and businesses to slow the spread of the virus. This was followed by a gradual loosening of restrictions (“reopening”) starting in April. As the virus has re-emerged, a number of...
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What’s Up with the Phillips Curve?
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Tracking the Spread of COVID-19 in the Region
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How Does the Liquidity of New Treasury Securities Evolve?
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Explaining the Puzzling Behavior of Short-Term Money Market Rates
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Market Function Purchases by the Federal Reserve
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Debt Relief and the CARES Act: Which Borrowers Face the Most Financial Strain?
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RBA
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Weekly links October 23: popularizing research, partial identification, celebrating ideas-led growth, and more…
Berk Ozler Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank David McKenzie Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Markus Goldstein Lead Economist, Africa Region and Research Group, World Bank David Evans Senior Economist Development Impact Guest Blogger Guest bloggers
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Exporting on eBay: The Impact of Lowering the Hassle Costs of Exporting
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Weekly links October 16: business plan press, Deaton, policies for a better-fed world, and more…
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What is the return on adult education? Evidence from India
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Weekly links October 9: the next step in transparency? Minimum wages in Africa, pirates, and more…
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Weekly links October 2: IV-bashing, the verdict on cash, we are hiring, opening lines, and more…
RBNZ
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Stress test reinforces importance of bank capital
Release date 17 September 2020 The Reserve Bank’s – Te Pūtea Matua – latest stress test of New Zealand’s banks illustrates the benefit and necessity of shoring up bank capital in the good times to provide resilience. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that large shocks can occur with very little warning. “The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic provides a stark reminder to us all of the importance of being prepared for the...
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Work on Insurance Act Review resumes
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Confidence in a world of uncertainty
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Same objectives, different challenges
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Banks and NBDT's under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 – August 2020
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RBNZ to lead Asia-Pacific Central Banks working group
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Changes to Term Lending Facility
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Money Supply 2014-07-29 13:41:38
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ECB caught up in economists’ spat
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TLTRO: how well has the ECB targeted its loans?
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Live blog: Mario Draghi’s monthly ECB press conference
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Japan’s inflation expectations: glass half empty?
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Carney’s (old) new normal
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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Cochrane on debt II
Yesterday, I posted a reply to John Cochrane's Sept 4 post on the national debt. John alerted me to his Sept 6 update, which I somehow missed. Given this update (together with some personal correspondence), let me offer my own update. John begins with an equation describing the flow of government revenue and expenditure. With a debt/GDP ratio of one, the sustainable (primary) deficit/GDP ratio is given by g - r, where g = growth rate of NGDP...
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Cochrane on why debt matters
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Why the Fed Should Create a Standing Repo Facility
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Kalecki on the Political Aspects of Full Employment
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A conversation with Eric Tymoigne on MMT vs SMT
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Blanchard and Farmer on the Phillips Curve
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Does the Phillips Curve Live in Europe?
Atlanta Fed
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Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
« Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons? | Main Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website, although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who use RSS should update their feed's URL to https://www.frbatlanta.org/rss/macroblog.aspx. ...
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Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons?
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Faster Wage Growth for the Lowest-Paid Workers
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Is Job Switching on the Decline?
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Private and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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New Evidence Points to Mounting Trade Policy Effects on U.S. Business Activity
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Digging into Older Americans’ Flat Participation Rate