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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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago

The effects of fiscal aid on health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

As governments around the world combatted COVID-19, the US witnessed unprecedented levels of funding transfers from the federal government to…

1 year ago

How refugees continue to positively shape the Greek economy over a century after they arrived

From 1922 to 1923, over 1.2 million Greek Orthodox migrated from Anatolia to Greece. This column examines whether the human…

1 year ago

Roaring tariffs: The global impact of the 2025 US trade war

Sweeping US tariff increases in 2025 are upending global trade. This column draws on new data and simulations to show…

1 year ago

Avoiding Kindleberger’s trap: A dollar coalition of the willing

In the event of dysfunction in dollar funding markets, the Federal Reserve can supply liquidity through standing central bank swaps.…

1 year ago

The high price of the fight against inflation: The case of the euro area

The fight against inflation has largely been won in the euro area, after a sharp but short-lived inflation episode over…

1 year ago