Another misdiagnosis of 2022? Wrote this letter to Financial Times because I feel like the FTX dust cloud is obscuring some real gains the financial sector has made DTCC ABI Lab buff.ly/3CsSnLJ

Predicting that 2023 will be a reset year for blockchain as DeFi and financial services move closer together. Also, keep an eye on the Middle East and emerging economies! r3.com/blog/five-pred…

How is DeFi relevant to FX? Our new R3 paper considers how CBDC can adapt AMM functionality to service low liquidity currency pairs bit.ly/3wLDikY

On #InternationalWomensDay, this article considers our challenges in a world where Web3 is the norm. This have improved! But we need more than aspirations to change the world: buff.ly/3ZU8laV

Excited to be part of this!

Everybody has a side hustle. Mine is writing papers with Dre Maria Sokolova ! Our latest in Politics & Gender answers the question - why are women heads of multilaterals so scarce? buff.ly/3A6WDPk

Books are great. They brought Daron Acemoglu back to Twitter!

The sticky question is: whose obligation is it to assure #gender diversity at the top levels of global governance? Our data shows which agencies have been successful United Nations WTO

Where we argue about the difference between a stablecoin and a tokenized deposit and Scott Chipolina does the whole session with no notes!

Will digital assets change finance? These are the people to ask ⬇️ Thank you Financial News for the shout out and R3 for the opportunity. Excited to be part of this club along with Teana Baker-Taylor Caroline Malcolm Sendi Young Elke Karskens and others

Why CBDC? To ensure the convertibility of private sector money. Learning from 3 of the most knowledgeable people on digital assets on one panel! Gina Pieters, PhD, Silvia Attanasio, and Inutu Lukonga R3 #cordaday

Happy to see that I wasn't wrong! Trade Finance Global buff.ly/44LeiKa

Prof Corden was the first person in my life who agreed that trade protection was a fascinating topic. Our discussions were the reason I jumped (maybe a little over-exhuberantly) into trade economics

How Boston's Big Dig explains Contour's impact on trade and trade finance linkedin.com/pulse/5-lesson…

Prof Solow's work on low wage workers and inequality reinforced my interest in labor policy when I first joined MIT. Once in grad school I checked myself out of a hospital early just to attend one of his lectures. Totally worth it nytimes.com/2023/12/21/bus…

Thinking about the future. I'm most intrigued by the shifting of institutions, instruments and regions into new configurations

We know that women are rarely tapped to be heads of multilateral institutions, even as gender parity in the workplace is improving. The secret to gaining power? Choose your institution carefully: some appear to be "set aside" for women leaders. buff.ly/3UBCz2V

Women's day is a great time to recognize an important place where women are absent: the top. Only 25% of multilateral appointed a woman head even once since 1990. Our 2023 paper in Politics & Gender exposes the candidate pool as the bottleneck. buff.ly/3UBCz2V

Thank you @amerbanker for recognizing the R3 research team's hard work over the past couple of years with this award! Read more about it here: buff.ly/4ddnA5k

One application of yesterday's The Nobel Prize in econ: a development-first vision for digital trade in the WTO. Part of the International Trade Project Mercatus Center mercatus.org/research/polic…