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The trade imbalance network and currency fluctuations

In recent years, concerns over global financial fragmentation have grown amid rising geopolitical tensions. This column integrates a network structure…

7 months ago

Short-term labour mobility drives innovation in Africa

A growing body of research highlights the importance of mobility in the global knowledge economy, but has largely focused on…

7 months ago

Big news missing the big picture: Stock market performance in the news

The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is. This column argues that…

7 months ago

Chinese banks and their EMDE borrowers

As of end-September 2024, Chinese banks' cross-border lending to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) made up about 23% of…

7 months ago

Ozarks Notebook: The Reemergence of ‘One-Room’ Schools in Southwest Missouri

This seemingly old-timey form of schooling is reemerging in rural areas where families seek a different education for their children.…

7 months ago

Overcoming constraints: How banks helped US firms reroute their supply chains

Finding new international suppliers and reconfiguring supply chains takes time and money. As Grossman et al. (2024) and Baldwin and…

7 months ago

What the financial sector needs to know about climate-related risks in the next five years: Navigating the new NGFS short-term scenarios for Europe

As climate change intensifies and policy responses evolve, there is a growing consensus in the literature that climate risk is…

7 months ago

When illusions of wealth shape the economy: Understanding pseudo-wealth, macroeconomic volatility, and social welfare

In a family of canonical macroeconomic models, fluctuations in consumption are explained by changes in real fundamentals – technology, factor…

7 months ago

Exchange rate uncertainty, tariff hikes, and adjustment costs

Tariffs announced on 2 April 2025 by the US administration marked a clear change in global trade relations. All trading…

7 months ago

Working from home boosted growth by expanding disability employment

The great long-run economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the permanent rise in working from home (Rauh et…

7 months ago