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The new currency war: The US-China digital rivalry as a test of monetary discipline

Digital currencies pegged to fiat money face a built-in tension between credibility and competition, creating a ‘stablecoin paradox’. This column…

5 months ago

The Federal Reserve, the new administration, and the outlook for the economy and monetary policy

The new US administration has made the Federal Reserve’s monetary policymaking more complicated both because of the elevated uncertainty regarding…

5 months ago

How to update the EU Merger Guidelines

There is a growing push from certain quarters for the European Commission to weaken merger control in order to spur…

5 months ago

How Donald Trump should have tackled the US trade deficit

The US trade deficits will have to be reduced materially to prevent a crisis down the road. This column argues…

5 months ago

Adjusting productivity for carbon emissions: A new perspective on the growth slowdown

Productivity growth has been lacklustre over the past 20 years in most advanced economies. But standard productivity measures ignore the…

5 months ago

Investor memory and biased beliefs: Evidence from the field

Financial markets are volatile, with extreme fluctuations ranging from the post-COVID bull run and the meme stock surges of 2021…

5 months ago

Fentanyl: The transnational vector of violence

Since 2013, synthetic opioid overdoses have surged in the US, claiming over 70,000 lives each year. This crisis has had…

5 months ago

Italy and the cost of unintelligible laws: 110 billion euros a year

Over the past 30 years, laws in Italy have become longer, more convoluted, and frequently unintelligible even to seasoned legal…

5 months ago

How central bankers speak about climate and what this means for financial markets

Central banks have increasingly engaged with climate-related topics in their public communication, but little is known about the drivers and…

5 months ago

EU jobs and US trade: Navigating change

Trade uncertainty between the EU and the US – driven by the announcement of new tariffs and a volatile global…

5 months ago