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Monetary Policy, Sample Newsletters
On Central Banks’ mandate
The changing and growing roles of independent Central Banks might now require a reconsideration of their mandate.
New and noteworthy books in economics (September)
For this month a smorgasbord of books: a Nobelist recounts life in economics; a look at financial crises and creative destruction from a different angle; what ails India.
On geopolitical risks, inflation, and the price of oil
What are the transmission channels from geopolitical risks to inflation? How does the US-China political relationship affect the price of oil?
Uncertainty and consumers
Novel research on how consumers allocate time use when there is uncertainty and how consumer disagreement about macroeconomic uncertainty affects economic activity.
What are banks doing about climate change?
Banks, Global Systemically Important and other European ones have publicly announced their “climate action plans.” How consistent are their lending practices with their environmental disclosures?
Interesting new research on trade
How does trade uncertainty affect domestic credit supply? A new modelling framework that allows nowcasting of trade data using machine learning.
Open banking
Open banking empowers customers to share their banking data with fintechs and other banks. New research on the benefits, the drawbacks and the regulatory challenges.
Challenges in central bank communication
New research on the importance of semantic simplicity of central bank communication and how high inflationary environments impact agents attention to this communication.
Automation and monetary policy
How does automation affect the Phillips curve? Does tight monetary policy lead to de-automation?
Climate policy and politics
Very interesting new research on why the Fed and the ECB adopted divergent stances on climate mitigation policies and how the politics of oil and other fossil fuels will affect the transition to clean energy.