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A European climate bond

Tackling climate change requires huge resources and a quick policy response (IPCC Working Group III 2022): the faster greenhouse gas…

1 year ago

Financial conditions matter more than interest rates: A new framework for monetary policy

The Federal Reserve’s policy rate stands at 4.5%, dramatically higher than its pre-COVID level of around 1.5%–2%. This sharp tightening…

1 year ago

Housing wealth across countries: The role of expectations, institutions, and preferences

Homeownership rates and housing wealth differ immensely across countries. Using a life-cycle model with housing wealth estimated on micro data…

1 year ago

Raising legal drinking ages: An opportunity to improve European educational outcomes

Teenage drinking remains widespread in Europe. To address concerns about its negative effects on health and cognition, many European countries…

1 year ago

The impact of financial deglobalization

Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium.  For several decades, global financial markets have been increasingly integrated. But has that process…

1 year ago

Central bank business surveys: Version 2.0

Sample surveys have been a fundamental tool for capturing policy-relevant heterogeneities among agents, especially firms, and remain crucial for providing…

1 year ago

UK Government\’s AI Plan Gives a Glimpse of How It Plans to Regulate the Technology

he UK government recently published its plan for using AI to boost growth and deliver services more efficiently. It also…

1 year ago

Pathways to a Durable Israeli Palestinian Peace

The authors examine the possibility that the extraordinary costs and destructiveness of the present Israeli-Palestinian conflict could demonstrate to all…

1 year ago

India sends navigation satellite into orbit on ISRO rocket in landmark launch

BENGALURU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket,…

1 year ago

Five alarming statistics on global hunger

As we welcome 2025 and close the first quarter of the 21st century, it is a moment for reflection. We…

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