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Hélène Rey @helene-rey.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Talking With Hélène Rey

The international role of the dollar and more

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · Jul 17

Good stuff coming to Le Chat

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Jul 17

Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research’ mode

Mistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunch

French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · Jul 15

"As climate extremes intensify, the next financial crisis may not come from housing or tech, but from a climate-driven breakdown in the global food system."

Max Dugan-Knight @maxduganknight.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pleased to see Deep Sky Research cited in this great article on an under-reported topic 🌽📉

“We’re losing 120 calories per person, per day, for every degree of global warming.”

www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

The Crash No One Sees Coming: Food System Failure

Climate-driven food shocks pose a growing risk to global markets. As yields fall and insurance retreats, the next financial crash may start in the fields.

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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · Jul 3

Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time

Latest data indicates progress for EU country most dependent on the fossil fuel

Poland’s clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time

Latest data indicates progress for EU country most dependent on the fossil fuel

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

Wow, super interesting!

"Cultural Bonds" by Cascarano, Garcia-Appendini, Sekerci, and Stradi.

"We find that households of different cultural origins invest differently in government bonds..., reflecting cultural differences in the perception of public debt."

www.norges-bank.no/en/news-even...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 17

38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Bank of Canada @bankofcanada.ca · Apr 14

📢 There is still time to submit your #ResearchPaper to the @banquedefrance-off.bsky.social for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Economics, Finance, and Central Banking Conference.

📩 Submit your research to [email protected] by April 30.

Details: bit.ly/3DykmNJ

#DiversityInEcon

Conference on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Economics, Finance, and Central Banking | Banque de France

The Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Spain, Banque de France, Banca d’Italia, and European Central Bank are organizing the 6th conference on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Economics, Finan...

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Vincent Thivierge @vthivierge.bsky.social · Apr 14

I had missed this, but it looks like Trump's April 8th executive order may kill California cap-and-trade system (www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...)

Protecting American Energy From State Overreach

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

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Thomas Drechsel @tdecon.bsky.social · Mar 31

We just completed a first, preliminary draft of a new paper:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡

Joint with Ko Miura

econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

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Hélène Rey @helene-rey.bsky.social · Mar 23

Article we wrote in 2019 turning out to be very relevant for the debate around external imbalances and the dollar today. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The International Monetary and Financial System | Annual Reviews

International currencies fulfill different roles in the world economy, with important synergies across those roles. We explore the implications of currency hegemony for the external balance sheet of t...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Mar 21

It was an honor to contribute a chapter on "Sustainable Banking" to the 4th edition of The Oxford Handbook of Banking. I review the role of banks in financing the transition to a low-carbon economy, the impact of climate risks on credit supply & challenges such as greenwashing and carbon arbitrage 👇

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Mar 11

Forthcoming article by Jin Cao, Ragnar E Juelsrud and Talina Sondershaus "The Effect of Asset Encumbrance on Bank Behavior: Evidence from the Introduction of Covered Bonds in Norway" @eeanews.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

The Effect of Asset Encumbrance on Bank Behavior: Evidence from the Introduction of Covered Bonds in Norway

Abstract. We use the introduction of covered bonds in Norway in 2007 together with administrative and supervisory data at the bank and loan level to invest

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Mar 12

Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments

This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · Mar 10

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Francesco Furlanetto 🇺🇦 @furlanetto.bsky.social · Mar 1

Norges Bank Spring Institute 2025 with @helenerey.bsky.social: beautiful days in a non beautiful time 🇺🇦

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Feb 28

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"

from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

At Least Now We Know the Truth

It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

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Kasper Roszbach @kasperroszbach.bsky.social · Feb 15

Last chance to apply for a #researchassistant position at @NorgesBank. Knowledge of a Scandinavian language is an advantage. Deadline February 15.

Research Assistant

Norges Bank is Norway’s central bank. The Bank’s task is to promote economic stability in Norway, and has executive and advisory responsibilities in the area of monetary policy and responsibility for ...

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Feb 14

President Trump has launched an attack on the rules-based international order. Olivier Blanchard @piie.com @pse.bsky.social & @pisaniferry.bsky.social argue that the #EU can and should work with non-EU countries to form partnerships or ‘coalitions of the willing’.
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President Trump has launched an attack on the rules-based international order, which most governments regard as the bedrock of peace and prosperity. This column argues that the EU has the potential to organise an effective collective response, but it must overcome two obstacles: its size and its internal divisions. To do this, EU countries ready to go ahead should work with non-EU countries to form international partnerships, or ‘coalitions of the willing’.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Feb 12

Large firms can and should use #climate commitments to accelerate the green transition when government climate policies are constrained. Private commitments resolve policy gaps & make government commitments more credible.
V Acharya, R Engle, @olivierwang.bsky.social
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Graph showing that an increasing number of firms, especially large firms, have made net-zero climate commitments.

Since 2016, there has been a surge of commitments for net zero emissions by large firms. This column analyses whether these corporate commitments can have a real impact on decarbonisation. It shows that large firms can and should use climate commitments to accelerate the green transition when government climate policies are constrained. Private initiatives work best in countries with more constraints on innovation subsidies than on carbon pricing, because firms’ incentives to reduce their carbon tax bill is stronger. Finally, private commitments not only resolve policy gaps but also make government commitments more credible by resolving time-inconsistency problems.

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Feb 11

📢Final Reminder! #CallForPapers

CEPR, the organising and program committees, along with the organising institutions, invite papers for the 7th Summer #Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate #Finance.

📆Submit by: 15 Feb 2025
More details: cepr.org/events/7th-s...
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The organizing and program committees, along with the organizing institutions (Audencia Business School ─ Bank of Greece ─ Cyprus University of Technology ─ Durham University Business School ─ Essex Business School ─ Gabelli School of Business ─ Montpellier Business School), invite submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation, corporate finance, and their intersection.

The conference will be held only in person. The academic program starts on Sunday (29 June) and ends Tuesday afternoon (1 July). The conference will take place at the Amarilia Hotel in Vouliagmeni on the first two days, with sessions at the Bank of Greece on July 1.

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Feb 7

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Jan 24

Very excited to see our paper on climate change forthcoming at the American Economic Review @aeajournals.bsky.social
! We study how people across 20 countries think about climate change and climate policies.

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jan 23

Forthcoming in the AER: "Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies" by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies, examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different...

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