Central-Banks
Amol Agrawal: Mostly Economics
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Course on detection of academic bullshit..
Ananth Nageswaran in this post tells us about this course which helps detect academic bullshit. The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit — and take advantage of our lowered...
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What explains India’s farm distress? Demand or Supply?
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RBI’s MPC member also supports rate changes other than in multiples of 25 bps..
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Ireland establishes a Bank Culture Board
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Evolution of Fed’s inflation target from 1.5% to 2%..
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Argentina’s high inflation leads people to bitcoins ….
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Learning about Federal Reserve via comics…
Bank Of Japan
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(BOJ Review) Analysis of private consumption using weather data
April 19, 2019 Kunihiro Akutsu*, Yasutaka Koike Research and Statistics Department Currently at the Kagoshima Branch Full Text [PDF 185KB] Private consumption is affected by temporary disturbance factors such as weather conditions, so it is difficult to assess business conditions. In this paper, we propose "Macro Weather Index" as a comprehensive indicator of Japan's weather conditions, and analyze the effect of weather factors on...
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Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (Apr.)
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Financial System Report (Apr. 2019)
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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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Bank of Japan Accounts (April 10)
Bank of Canada
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Business Outlook Survey—Spring 2019
Data available as: CSV, JSON, and XML
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Senior Loan Officer Survey—First Quarter of 2019
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Why Do Central Banks Care About Market Power?
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The Bank of Canada releases its Annual Report for 2018
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Poloz talks trade: Canada’s services a bright spot
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Canada’s export sector shows promise in a challenging environment, Governor Poloz says
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Bank of Canada joins Central Banks’ and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System
Bank of International Settlement
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New information and inflation expectations among firms
BIS Working Papers | No 781 | 18 April 2019 by Serafin Frache and Rodrigo Lluberas PDF full text (1,270kb) | 45 pages Summary Focus We study how firms form inflation expectations in an environment of relatively high and volatile inflation, as is the case of many...
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Can regulation on loan-loss-provisions for credit risk affect the mortgage market? Evidence from administrative data in Chile
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Consolidated Basel Framework
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Standardised approach – implementing the mapping process
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BigTech and the changing structure of financial intermediation
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Does informality facilitate inflation stability?
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Towards a sectoral application of the countercyclical capital buffer
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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Is the ZLB an economic or legal constraint?
The so-called zero-lower-bound (ZLB) plays a prominent role in modern (and even older) macroeconomic theories. It is often introduced in a paper or at conference as a fact of life -- an unavoidable property of the physical environment, like gravity. But is it correct to view it in this way? Or is the ZLB better thought of as legal constraint--something that can potentially be circumvented by policy?The Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act...
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The Chicago Booth Survey on MMT
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Sustainable deficits
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Is Neo-Fisherism Nuts?
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When is more competition bad?
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Racial Diversity in the Supply of U.S. Econ PhDs
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Does the Fed have a symmetric inflation target?
ECB Press Releases
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Sabine Lautenschläger: Central Bankers, Supervisors and Climate-Related Risks
Panel remarks by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Network for Greening the Financial System Conference, in Paris, France, 17 April 2019The financial community’s most important action with regard to climate change has happened in the last few years: many stakeholders in the financial industry, and central bankers, too, have realised that climate change is not an issue for next century. It’s an issue for...
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Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
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Mario Draghi: IMFC Statement
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Results of the Q2 2019 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters
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Mario Draghi, Luis de Guindos: Introductory statement to the press conference (with Q&A)
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Monetary policy decisions
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ECB nominates Yves Mersch as Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board
Impact Evaluations
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Friday Links: wage penalty, #LookLikeAnEconomist, detention vs meditation, #Rstats, #GitHub, jobs …
And now for some Friday links ... Nice roundup on the wage penalty for mothers vs fathers across 6 OECD economies in the Economist (hint: it’s really large, and correlates well with population-wide attitudes towards mothers who work; RT @piza_caio). #LookLikeAnEconomist: some great news on that front, the next PhD cohort at UC Berkeley is ...
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Humans of Field Work
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Weekly links April 12: informal firms, politics, PACDEV, and more on field work
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How to Implicit Association Test?
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Local expert opinion on prices is a good substitute for a full-fledged market price survey – since local prices are often missing this is great news
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Weekly links April 5: Banerjee on UBIs in India, is Stata constraining African development? What about beer? Mentoring underrepresented women, and more…
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Reducing intimate partner violence through edutainment
New York Fed
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Just Released: The New York Fed’s New Regional Economy Website
Jaison R. Abel, Jason Bram, Richard Deitz, and Jonathan Hastings The New York Fed today unveiled a newly designed website on the regional economy that offers convenient access to a wide array of regional data, analysis, and research that the Bank makes available to the public. Focusing specifically on the Federal Reserve’s Second District, which includes New York State, Northern New Jersey, Southwestern Connecticut, Puerto Rico, and the...
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Did Tax Reform Raise the Cost of Owning a Home?
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Is the Recent Tax Reform Playing a Role in the Decline of Home Sales?
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The Sustainability of First-Time Homeownership
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Who’s on First? Characteristics of First-Time Homebuyers
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A Better Measure of First-Time Homebuyers
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Just Released: The New York Fed Staff Forecast—April 2019
RBNZ
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand News Releases 1970-01-01 00:00:00
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
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Handbook supports transition to new monetary policy framework
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New Zealand’s revised monetary policy framework and the imperative for institutional change
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Expertise on Reserve Bank committee means strong focus on economy and jobs
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Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75 percent
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Reserve Bank presented with award for the Bank Financial Strength Dashboard
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Secretary to the Treasury nominated as the Treasury observer on the Monetary Policy Committee
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
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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
Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics
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Balance Sheet News
The FOMC minutes for the January 29-30 meeting, released yesterday, contain some important information about the Fed's balance sheet, and plans for the FOMC's future operating strategy. Let's unpack this, to try to understand what they're up to.The key information is in the section in the minutes on "Long Run Monetary Policy Implementation Frameworks." This section deals with presentations from staff economists (in part from the...
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The Fed and the New Year
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Fed’s Portfolio Manager Says Not to Worry
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Should You Be As Excited About GDP Growth As Donald Trump Claims to Be?
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Don’t Fear the Inversion – It’s the Short Rate That Kills You
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Fed Balance Sheet Policy, and Treasury Debt Management
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Fed Balance Sheet News
Tony Yates: Long and Variable
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Indy Voices post on Corbyn’s Brexit talks conditions
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New Statesman blog on the “bollocks” of Labour’s Six Tests.
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Whatever Powell says, the Fed can’t avoid taking political considerations into account.
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What is the best Brexit outcome for the SNP?
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King’s Bloomberg bloopers
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Legitimacy somersaults
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An optimistic forecast concerning the inconsistent ambitions of Lexiters and Brexiters
ECB Press Releases
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Sabine Lautenschläger: Central Bankers, Supervisors and Climate-Related Risks
Panel remarks by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Network for Greening the Financial System Conference, in Paris, France, 17 April 2019The financial community’s most important action with regard to climate change has happened in the last few years: many stakeholders in the financial industry, and central bankers, too, have realised that climate change is not an issue for next century. It’s an issue for...
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Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
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Mario Draghi: IMFC Statement
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Results of the Q2 2019 ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters
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Mario Draghi, Luis de Guindos: Introductory statement to the press conference (with Q&A)
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Monetary policy decisions
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ECB nominates Yves Mersch as Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board
Tony Yates: Long and Variable
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Indy Voices post on Corbyn’s Brexit talks conditions
Link here. Advertisements
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New Statesman blog on the “bollocks” of Labour’s Six Tests.
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Whatever Powell says, the Fed can’t avoid taking political considerations into account.
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What is the best Brexit outcome for the SNP?
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King’s Bloomberg bloopers
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Legitimacy somersaults
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An optimistic forecast concerning the inconsistent ambitions of Lexiters and Brexiters
Bank of Canada
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Business Outlook Survey—Spring 2019
Data available as: CSV, JSON, and XML
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Senior Loan Officer Survey—First Quarter of 2019
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Why Do Central Banks Care About Market Power?
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The Bank of Canada releases its Annual Report for 2018
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Poloz talks trade: Canada’s services a bright spot
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Canada’s export sector shows promise in a challenging environment, Governor Poloz says
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Bank of Canada joins Central Banks’ and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System
RBNZ
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand News Releases 1970-01-01 00:00:00
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
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Handbook supports transition to new monetary policy framework
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New Zealand’s revised monetary policy framework and the imperative for institutional change
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Expertise on Reserve Bank committee means strong focus on economy and jobs
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Official Cash Rate unchanged at 1.75 percent
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Reserve Bank presented with award for the Bank Financial Strength Dashboard
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Secretary to the Treasury nominated as the Treasury observer on the Monetary Policy Committee
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
[unable to retrieve full-text content]
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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
Bank of International Settlement
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New information and inflation expectations among firms
BIS Working Papers | No 781 | 18 April 2019 by Serafin Frache and Rodrigo Lluberas PDF full text (1,270kb) | 45 pages Summary Focus We study how firms form inflation expectations in an environment of relatively high and volatile inflation, as is the case of many...
Read more » -
Can regulation on loan-loss-provisions for credit risk affect the mortgage market? Evidence from administrative data in Chile
-
Consolidated Basel Framework
-
Standardised approach – implementing the mapping process
-
BigTech and the changing structure of financial intermediation
-
Does informality facilitate inflation stability?
-
Towards a sectoral application of the countercyclical capital buffer
New York Fed
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Just Released: The New York Fed’s New Regional Economy Website
Jaison R. Abel, Jason Bram, Richard Deitz, and Jonathan Hastings The New York Fed today unveiled a newly designed website on the regional economy that offers convenient access to a wide array of regional data, analysis, and research that the Bank makes available to the public. Focusing specifically on the Federal Reserve’s Second District, which includes New York State, Northern New Jersey, Southwestern Connecticut, Puerto Rico, and the...
Read more » -
Did Tax Reform Raise the Cost of Owning a Home?
-
Is the Recent Tax Reform Playing a Role in the Decline of Home Sales?
-
The Sustainability of First-Time Homeownership
-
Who’s on First? Characteristics of First-Time Homebuyers
-
A Better Measure of First-Time Homebuyers
-
Just Released: The New York Fed Staff Forecast—April 2019