Category: Analysis
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Building an economic model
For the small price of losing accuracy with respect to the real way of things (call it nuance), we get to feel as economists that we more or less understand why and how things happen.
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Inflation outcomes under central bank independence
Central bank independence is a gateway to better inflation outcomes——for some countries.
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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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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.
Economitron 