Call for papers, Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets. The conference will be held in Istanbul, Türkiye on May 7-8, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on February 6, 2025. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

New: "Does democracy shape international merger activity?" by Farooq Ahmad (Farooq Ahmad), Thomas Lambert (Thomas Lambert), José Martin-Flores (José M. Martín Flores🇪🇺) and Arthur Romec (Arthur Petit-Romec). doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

Sign up #MacroFor seminar with Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde, on Sept 24 at 3:30pm CEST. He will present "Predictive Density Combination Using a Tree-Based Synthesis Function". forecasters.org/programs/commu… #forecasting #macroeconomics #modeling Laurent Ferrara Gergely Gánics Malte Knüppel

How are you, U.S. economy? Growth slows down but no recession in sight open.substack.com/pub/imeneconom…

Super interesting article on the IMF Blog by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Krishna Srinivasan, and Rodrigo Valdés "Trade Balances in China and the US Are Largely Driven by Domestic Macro Forces" imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Pushing this #PostDoc position up in your timeline. If you are interested in a post-doc position at Frankfurt School , please email me! If you are working on financial intermediation, banks or private (direct) lending, get in touch!!#research #finance #postdoc

Climate Change through the Lens of Macroeconomic Modeling by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Kenneth Gillingham, and Simon Scheidegger resources.environment.yale.edu/gillingham/Cli…

Food for thought! "Default and Interest Rate Shocks: Renegotiation Matters" by V Almeida, C Esquivel, T Kehoe, and J P Nicolini "We develop a sovereign default model with debt renegotiation in which interest-rate shocks affect default incentives" minneapolisfed.org/research/worki…

In the United States, inflation rates are slowly decreasing. The economy seems to be on track for a soft landing. Will the Fed this week

This awesome job opportunity will close on September 19. Come work with us at the Bank of Israel. Please share. #EconTwitter #EconX #Research #JobOpportunities #Economist #Economics #JobOffer #CentralBank

Researchers working with macro models, experts on numerical methods, estimation and forecasting methods, check this out! Fantastic new toolbox Rep-MMB developed and made available by my colleague Alex Meyer-Gohde! REP_MMB. macromodelbase.com/page/rep-mmb

Really interesting! The China Cross-Border Monitor by Rhodium Group You can explore China’s completed investments across roughly 200 economies: cbm.rhg.com/data

As always, the BIS Quarterly Review has so many interesting contributions. For instance: "International finance through the lens of BIS statistics: bank exposures and country risk" by Bryan Hardy, Patrick McGuire, and Goetz von Peter bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_…

Don't miss this awesome online seminar today 👇🏼 #Research #EconTwitter #EconX #Economics

#Geopolitics plays an important role in driving the volume of #Trade between countries. Dora Xia and James Yetman explain in this video #BISQuarterly bit.ly/47oGggG

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The results in this great paper show many interesting details that shed more light on geopolitical tensions and international investments. A Gravity Model of Geopolitics and Financial Fragmentation, by Mario Catalan, Salih Fendoglu, and Tomohiro Tsuruga. imf.org/en/Publication…

Waiting for the Fed. The opinion in our network (obviously, our surveys may be biased) is clear. Most expect the Fed to cut interest rates by 25 bps.

In his presidential address at the annual meetings of the American Finance Association back in January, Princeton University Professor Markus Brunnermeier spoke about financial crises as "resilience killers." Watch the full speech here: bit.ly/47yLXHD

The St. Louis Fed is hiring full-time RAs! Our RAs work closely with economists to produce academic research and policy analysis. Our recent RAs have gone on to pursue PhDs at top institutions as well as careers both within the Fed and the private sector …deralreservebankofstlouis.cmail19.com/t/t-e-sojkjd-l…