Author: Lukas Pietilä
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Inflation non-linearities of energy shocks
Supply chain resilience typically means that oil shocks come and go. What about when they don’t go away so quickly?
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Economic models are really, really cool
But by honing in on mathematical rigour, economic teaching does a disservice to the social science.
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Welcome to the €uro Club
With the turn of the year, Bulgaria has become the latest member to join the eurozone. The question remains: are political aspirations superseding economic soundness?
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Price-setting ability in money markets
The market structure for unsecured overnight lending can influence both liquidity conditions and interest rate pass-through.
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Giving meaning to words (with numbers)
Sentiment analysis helps track the language used in economic policy – and how it develops over time.
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Untangling liquidity cycle asymmetry
The 2022-2024 rate hiking and cutting cycle is an excellent case study for monetary policy transmission.
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What the private sector thinks of governments’ spending splurge
It is substantively true to characterise current noncrisis government spending patterns as something unprecedented in modern history.
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The pitfall of weaponising economics against Russia
Kremlinites will be jittering as EU officials prepare to deal a decisive blow on Russian finances…with their planned 19th package of sanctions.
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