Economy
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A New Public Data Source: Call Reports from 1959 to 2025
Sergio Correia, Tiffany Fermin, Stephan Luck, and Emil Verner Call Reports are regulatory filings in which commercial banks report their…
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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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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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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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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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How Has Treasury Market Liquidity Fared in 2025?
Michael J. Fleming In 2025, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates, trade policy has shifted abruptly, and economic policy…
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Banking System Vulnerability: 2025 Update
Matteo Crosignani, Thomas Eisenbach, and Fulvia Fringuellotti As in previous years, we provide in this post an update on the…
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Consumption Sensitivity of Uncertain Households
Davide Melcangi and Gizem Kosar Uncertainty is a key component of everyday economic decisions of consumers and, perhaps not surprisingly,…
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