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International and Monetary Economics Network

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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.

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 12h

Highly relevant!

"Bond-Stock Comovements" by John Y. Campbell, Carolin Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira.

www.nber.org/papers/w34323

Reposted by International and Monetary Economics Network

Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 1d

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

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 1d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 3d

Highly relevant!

"The global trade war: An update" by Warwick J. McKibbin, Marcus Noland, and Geoffrey Shuetrim.

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 4d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 7d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 7d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 7d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 8d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 9d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 10d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 10d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 12d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 13d

Food for thought!

"Unbalanced Trade 2.0" by Alejandro Cuñat and Robert Zymek.

www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journal...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 14d

Highly recommended!

“Information Frictions in Macroeconomics: The Legacy of Robert E. Lucas, Jr.” by Robert M. Townsend.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 15d

Food for thought!

"Tariffs as Fiscal Policy" by Kimberly A. Clausing and Maurice Obstfeld.

www.piie.com/publications...

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 16d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 16d

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

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 16d

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...

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 17d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 17d

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...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 18d

Sadly, this is highly relevant!

"Macroeconomic Expectations in a War" by Y. Gorodnichenko and V. Vasudevan.

econ4ua.org/wp-content/u...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 19d

Food for thought!

"One Policy Rate, Many Stances: Evidence from the European Monetary Union" by Manuel Gonzalez-Astudillo and Diego Vilan

www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...

International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 21d

Super interesting!

"Attention-Dependent Monetary Transmission to Household Beliefs" by Jaemin Jeong, Eunseong Ma, and Choongryul Yang.

www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...