ECONOMY
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Measuring Labor Market Tightness: Data Update and New Web Feature
Sebastian Heise, Jeremy Pearce, and Jacob P. Weber Good measures of labor market tightness are essential to predict wage inflation…
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What Is a Carbon Tariff and Why Is the EU Imposing One?
Pierre Coster, Julian di Giovanni, and Isabelle Mejean The European Union has been an early adopter of carbon policies, with…
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Tariffs, Trade, and Tumbling Credit Scores: The Top 5 LSE Posts of 2025
Maureen Egan Each year brings a new set of economic challenges: In 2025, major areas of focus included tariffs and…
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Letters of Recommendation in the PhD Job Market: Lessons from Specialized Banks
Kristian S. Blickle and Cecilia Parlatore Banks must extract useful signals of a potential borrower’s quality from a large set…
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The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast— December 2025
Marco Del Negro, Ibrahima Diagne, Keshav Dogra, Elena Elbarmi, Donggyu Lee, and Michael Pham This post presents an update of…
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U.S. Banks Have Developed a Significant Nonbank Footprint
Nicola Cetorelli and Saketh Prazad In light of the rapid growth of nonbank financial institutions (NBFIs), many have argued that…
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How Businesses Set Prices—In Their Own Words
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Keshav Dogra, Sebastian Heise, Edward S. Knotek II, Brent H. Meyer, Robert W. Rich, Raphael S.…
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The Future of Payment Infrastructure Could Be Permissionless
Rod Garratt and Michael Junho Lee Following the recent passage of legislation in the U.S., payment stablecoins seem to be…
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Banks Develop a Nonbank Footprint to Better Manage Liquidity Needs
Nicola Cetorelli and Saketh Prazad In a previous post, we documented how, over the past five decades, the typical U.S.…
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Is Monetary Policy Still Seasonal?
Richard Crump, Keshav Dogra, and Dennis Kongoli A 2012 Liberty Street Economics post noted that U.S. monetary policy exhibits a…
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