Top news of the week: 06.03.2023.
Fed Vice Chair Michael S. Barr on cryptocurrencies
Michael S. Barr, vice chair for supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will provide remarks on cryptocurrencies at an event hosted by the Peterson Institute for ...
Crisis and Monetary Policy
The pandemic and war have bred new challenges for global central banks in coming years
The World Bank Stepped Up During the Pandemic
The World Bank (and the IMF) should get credit for increasingly their lending to the world's poorest countries during the pandemic. But without additional action now net flows to developing ...
Recent changes in consumers’ medium-term inflation expectations: A detailed look
Central banks typically pay considerable attention to inflation expectations. This column exploits the richness and flexible design of the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey to explore ...
Interview with Grupo Vocento
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the 19 European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so ...
History matters: The ideas of Paul David, 1935-2023
Paul David, who passed away in January 2023, was a major figure in redefining economic history; an early practitioner of cliometrics – exploring historical economies through rigorously ...
The antipoverty effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit across states: Where were the historic reductions felt?
The 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit led to a historic reduction in poverty in the United States. This essay investigates how the CTC affected child poverty in states and finds that ...
Metro Monitor 2023: Examining pandemic-era patterns of inclusive growth across the U.S.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has gone through an acute recession in 2020, a rapid jobs recovery in 2021, and high and sustained inflation in 2022. To measure ...