Our new AI Preparedness Index ranks 174 economies based on digital infrastructure, human capital, labor policies, innovation, integration, and regulation. See where does your country rank?  imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Call for papers, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Financial Economics. The conference will be held in Cambridge, MA on December 13, 2024. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on September 12, 2024. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

The further south you go in Europe, the more short term rentals (AirBnbs) do you get. A quick way to make money in what often are relatively poor areas. Source: buff.ly/4cj3G85

Literature review/state of the art on local projections! NBER by Òscar Jordà & Alan M. Taylor -- nber.org/papers/w32822#… #EconTwitter Alessia Paccagnini 👩‍🏫📚💶📈💻🍕⚽🐱🐶🎥 🎶🌍

Not bad at all! Check it out 😉 "The Economic Impacts and the Regulation of #AI: A Review of the Academic Literature and Policy Actions" #AIAct #ArtificialIntelligence papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Very good IMFPodcast with our trade expert Michele Ruta on the impact of new technologies, industrial policy, and geopolitical tensions on the international trading system. You can listen to it here: imf.org/en/News/Podcas…

The BIS Bank for International Settlements database contains about 20,000 central bankers' speeches. This is a great service and effort, but the dataset is complex and unstructured, making extracting country-specific information challenging. What we have done might also be beneficial for you.

Inference for Local Projections frbsf.org/research-and-i…

Happy to share that our paper on "Understanding the rise and fall of inflation since 2020" with Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Daniel Leigh and Prachi Mishra is now forthcoming in the Journal of Monetary Economics: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jdUV15DWH-H…

Delighted to see that this very interesting paper by Luciana J. and Paulo S Monteiro found an excellent home: academic.oup.com/jeea/article-a… Congratulations! "Risky Gravity," JEEA

We are so back #f1 LN⁴ #coffee

LANDO NORRIS WINS THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX!!! 🤩 An absolutely dominant drive from the McLaren driver 💪 #F1 #DutchGP

Are you interested in learning about macroeconomic models with financial frictions? I make the full course material for my PhD class on this topic available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/teac… Happy semester start from Univ. of Maryland

We held the 4th edition of the Big-Data Initiative in International Macro and Finance. There is a new website with all the slides, videos, codes, and data. A starter kit for anyone interested in doing research in international macro: Take a look: globalcapitalallocation.com/big-data-initi…

Go follow Alessia’s presentation! #EEAESEM24

We are very happy to present our Macroeconomic Uncertainty Measure for the Euro Area (updated MEU 😺 joint with Anh Nguyen) in a seminar at the European Central Bank on September 10. Join us if you're there! Paper and data: imf.org/en/Publication…

Women are leading more central banks than ever before, thanks to appointments in the past year, but recent gains still leave the share of female governors far short of parity. imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Great new IMF blog by my colleague Jeff Kearns which also looks at our works on gender and evidence by OMFIF: "Women Lead Record Number of Central Banks, but More Progress is Needed": imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic… -- mnewiak Lisa Kolovich D. Filiz Unsal

Join us for the 5th Lietuvos bankas-Narodowy Bank Polski-Central Bank Research Association biennial conference "Macroeconomic Adjustments after Large Global Shocks". Keynotes: Jaume Ventura, Oleg Itskhoki, Catherine Mann ➡️ Register by Sep 12: epsilon.escb.eu/limesurvey5/69… ➡️ More info: lb.lt/en/events/fift… #EconTwitter

Heartening to see women leading more central banks than ever before, but there's still much room for progress toward greater parity in the ranks of top policymakers steering the global economy. imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…