The 2025 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund takes place in Washington, D.C. Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty ImagesIn 2021, the World Bank shut down one of its flagship projects: the Doing Business index, a global ranking system that measured how easy it was to start and run a business in 190 countries.
Samuel K. Hughes and Joseph B. NicholsAs financial intermediaries, banks have a key role in producing information and managing the risks on diverse loan portfolios. An important input into this process is ongoing collection of financial performance from borrowers.
Andrea StellaUsing data on U.S. manufacturing plants, I estimate a production function model that includes agglomeration intensity as a component of total factor productivity and allows agglomeration benefits to vary across establishments, which can lead to sorting. I find that agglomeration benefits decline with unobserved establishment-level raw productivity.
We need a new approach to research—one rooted in trust, lived experience, and the stories data often overlooks.
The Money Markets Committee is a forum for market participants and authorities to discuss the UK unsecured deposits and funding market and securities lending and repo markets.
Every year, American universities spend millions of dollars patenting inventions developed on their campuses. Big names such as Stanford and the University of California system lead the pack in patent activity, but hundreds of other universities are also trying to strike gold by monetizing intellectual property.
The latest meeting of the Standards Advisory Panel (SAP)
The latest meeting of the Standards Advisory Panel (SAP)
Matthew R. Darst, Sotirios Kokas, Alexandros Kontonikas, Jose-Luis Peydro, and Alexandros P. VardoulakisWe show that the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy is limited by how banks adjust credit supply and manage liquidity risk in response to fragile non-bank funding. For identification, we use granular U.S. administrative data on deposit accounts and loan-level commitments, matched with bank-firm supervisory balance sheets.
Gone are the days when players prioritized luck games over skill. Though online casinos have undergone significant changes with the advanced technologies and development in the last decade, one notable growth is the rise of skill-based games, where players can exhibit their strategies and skills at casino games rather than relying on mere luck. Skill-based ... Read more
