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Not all foreign exchange reserves are created alike

The motives for the accumulation and management of foreign exchange reserves are a key topic in international economics. This column…

2 months ago

Cheaper machines, costlier buildings: The drag on long-run growth

The steady decline in the relative price of equipment has long been seen as a primary engine of long-run growth.…

2 months ago

The transatlantic divide in labour’s share of income

Across advanced economies, workers have been receiving a smaller share of national incomes. This column compares the evolution of labour’s…

2 months ago

Europe suffers not so much from a ‘flight’ of savings as from insufficient allocation to equities

Europe exports a large surplus of savings outside the continent each year. This column argues that this should not be…

2 months ago

The impact of geopolitical risk on the euro area economy: Past experience and future prospects

Geopolitical risk has become a key driver of macroeconomic fluctuations in the euro area, particularly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

2 months ago

The global minimum tax: More winners than losers – even without the US

A landmark shift in the international corporate tax system is taking shape. The introduction of a 15% global minimum tax…

2 months ago

Literature support and the capabilities of autonomous research agents

A central weakness of modern machine-learning systems is that performance tends to deteriorate outside the support of the training distribution.…

2 months ago

Global trade linkages and the cross-country distribution of the gains from AI

Productivity gains from AI are expected to be significant, but how international trade shapes the cross-country distribution of these gains…

2 months ago

The word is not enough: Testing the effects of information treatments on perceived corruption in Ukraine

Despite significant progress in fighting corruption since 2014, corruption perceptions in Ukraine are extremely high, while the government's willingness to…

2 months ago

The inefficient pricing of news

The main obstacle to market efficiency is whether investors can read, process, and quickly extract genuinely new information from articles.…

2 months ago