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How households reason and behave when deposit rates become negative

How households behave in an environment with deposit rates below zero is important for monetary transmission, but the literature is…

4 weeks ago

Housing affordability is reshaping Europe’s social fabric

Housing affordability has moved to the forefront of Europe’s policy debate. Surveys, press reports, and protests across the EU suggest…

4 weeks ago

The impact of global sanctions on cross-border mergers and acquisitions

The use of sanctions has grown steadily over the past seven decades, with well-documented effects on bilateral trade. This column…

1 month ago

The price of delay: How supply chain disruptions spread into consumer prices

Supply chain disruptions have become a recurring feature of recent economic dynamics and an increasing concern in inflation policy discussions.…

1 month ago

Monetary policy under multiple financing constraints

A longstanding puzzle in monetary economics is that policy tightening has stronger effects than easing. This column shows that the…

1 month ago

Research value-added in elite economics PhD programmes

The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act raises the federal tax on private university endowment income sharply, with the top…

1 month ago

Chat GPT’s financial advice: Supply, demand, and the life cycle

The rise of generative AI has raised hopes that high-quality, personalised financial advice might finally become cheap and universally accessible.…

1 month ago

Hedging interest rate risk when it matters: Evidence from Italian banks

Valuation losses can build quickly in response to higher interest rates, as demonstrated by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.…

1 month ago

AI, productivity, and work: Evidence from US firms

Real-time evidence from users can inform the current policy debates around artificial intelligence. This column reports on a survey of…

1 month ago

The impact of the US exit from free trade on trade cooperation elsewhere in the world

The large US tariffs announced in April 2025 led other countries to debate the best policy response. This column uses…

1 month ago