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The International and Monetary Economics Network covers a broad range of topics in international and monetary economics. The network comprises alums of the Universities of Bern and Basel and everyone interested in international and monetary economics.
Super interesting!
"Mapping the space of central bankers' ideas" by Taejin Park, Fernando Perez-Cruz, Hyun Song Shin
"This paper explores the landscape of economic ideas as revealed in the machine learning embedding of a comprehensive dataset of central bank speeches."
www.bis.org/publ/work129...
Forecasting the Economy: For our blog, an economist discusses challenges in creating economic forecasts, whether some indicators are easier to forecast than others, how “nowcasts” are useful and why economic forecasting matters https://bit.ly/4nMYCiZ
16.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Super interesting!
"Dancing in the Dark: Sentiment Shocks and Economic Activity" by Maximilian Boeck, Zeno Enders, Michael Kleemann, and Gernot J. Müller
mboeck11.github.io/papers/BEKM2...
Highly relevant!
"Measuring What Matters: Why Italy May Be in Better Fiscal Shape than the US" by Emanuele Dicarlo, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Mauro Marè, and Marco Olivari.
www.nber.org/papers/w34340
Highly recommended!
Maurice Obstfeld on trade and the international financial system
piieinsiderlive.libsyn.com/maurice-obst...
Food for thought!
"Financial channel implications of a weaker dollar for emerging market" by Mikael Juselius, Philip Wooldridge, and Dora Xia.
www.bis.org/publ/bisbull...
Super interesting!
“The Princeton-NYU Debt Transparency Index” by Nicolas Bau, Zoe Ge, Layna Mosley and B. Peter Rosendorff.
psfl.princeton.edu/document/491
Highly relevant!
"Bond-Stock Comovements" by John Y. Campbell, Carolin Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira.
www.nber.org/papers/w34323
SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay
09.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 197 🔁 57 💬 7 📌 10
Really cool!
"The BIS multisector model: a multi-country environment for macroeconomic analysis" by Matthias Burgert, Giulio Cornelli, Burcu Erik, Benoit Mojon, Daniel Rees, and Matthias Rottner.
www.bis.org/publ/work129...
Highly relevant!
"The global trade war: An update" by Warwick J. McKibbin, Marcus Noland, and Geoffrey Shuetrim.
www.piie.com/blogs/realti...
Highly relevant!
"How do rising temperatures affect inflation expectations?" by Dimitris Georgarakos, Geoff Kenny, Justus Meyer, and Maarten van Rooij.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
Wow, super interesting!
"Perceptions of Public Debt and Policy Expectations: Evidence from Cross Country Surveys" by Francesco Bianchi, Era Dabla-Norris, and Salma Khalid.
www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...
Food for thought!
"Mapping Global Debt: A New Measure of Currency Dominance and Uncertainty Shock Effects" by Agustín Bénétrix and Beren Demirölmez.
www.tcd.ie/Economics/TE...
Super interesting!
"SCION and Cross-Border Payments: Enhancing Security and Compliance in Distributed Ledger Networks" by Grace Cimaszewski, Francesco Da Dalt, Thomas Moser, and Adrian Perrig.
www.snb.ch/en/publicati...
Highly relevant!
"Durability, essentiality, and the transmission of monetary policy to household consumption" by Johannes Gareis and Ryan Minasian.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
Super interesting!
"Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women's Employment" by Stefania Albanesi.
Article in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Ungated version:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qjnig...
Highly relevant!
"Battle of the ages: distributional and aggregate effects of monetary policy in a model with age demographics" by Wouter J. Den Haan, Alessandro Ferrari, Falk Mazelis, and Annukka Ristiniemi.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
Wow, super interesting!
"The 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange (FX) and over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives markets activity shows trading in FX markets reached $9.6 trillion per day in April 2025, up 28% from 2022."
www.bis.org/press/p25093...
Food for thought!
"Debt maturity and government spending multipliers" by Morteza Ghomi, Jochen Mankart, Rigas Oikonomou, and Romanos Priftis.
www.bde.es/wbe/en/publi...
Food for thought!
"Unbalanced Trade 2.0" by Alejandro Cuñat and Robert Zymek.
www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...
Highly recommended!
“Information Frictions in Macroeconomics: The Legacy of Robert E. Lucas, Jr.” by Robert M. Townsend.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food for thought!
"Tariffs as Fiscal Policy" by Kimberly A. Clausing and Maurice Obstfeld.
www.piie.com/publications...
Highly recommended!
"Accounting for Uncertainty and Risks in Monetary Policy" by Michael Bauer, Travis Berge, Giuseppe Fiori, Francesca Loria, and Molin Zhong.
www.frbsf.org/research-and...
A highly relevant topic (unfortunately)!
Webinar: Opportunities and challenges of better interactions between military and civilian R&D
We are looking forward to this webinar with the innovation economist Dominique Foray
⏲️ Sep 29, 12.00-13.00 CEST
REGISTRATION: forms.office.com/r/eNP82ZTuwV
Super interesting!
"Harnessing artificial intelligence for monitoring financial markets" by Matteo Aquilina, Douglas Kiarelly Godoy de Araujo, Gaston Gelos, Taejin Park, and Fernando Perez-Cruz.
www.bis.org/publ/work129...
Wow, super valuable!
A nowcast for the unemployment rate in the United States.
"The Chicago Fed Labor Market Indicators combine real-time private sector data with official labor statistics to provide a timely and comprehensive view of labor market conditions."
www.chicagofed.org/research/dat...
Food for thought!
"The return of inflation: Why ‘look through’ can backfire under incomplete information" by Bušs, Traficante
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
The column is based on the paper “The Return of Inflation: Look-Through Policy Under Incomplete Information”
crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/defaul...
Sadly, this is highly relevant!
"Macroeconomic Expectations in a War" by Y. Gorodnichenko and V. Vasudevan.
econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...
Highly relevant!
"Trade wars and global spillovers. A quantitative assessment with ECB-global" by Valentin Jouvanceau, Matthieu Darracq Pariès, Alistair Dieppe, and Thore Kockerols.
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...
