Capital markets
Romain Baeriswyl, “Yesterday’s controversies for tomorrow’s money”
Swiss National Bank, Working paper n° 10/2026
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Abstract: While money has evolved from natural commodities to digital tokens, the debate about the ideal money has remained the same throughout the ages. Historical controversies about the origin, nature, and double-spending of money offer valuable insights for navigating the new forms of money tokens ...more »
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Mathias Drehmann and Xuewen Fu, “Hard to shift, easy to reshape: central bank reserve demand and frictions”
Bank for International Settlements, Working paper n° 1372
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Abstract: How far can central banks shrink their balance sheets? The answer sets the limits to quantitative tightening (QT), and depends critically on the demand for reserves and whether the drivers widely thought to have increased it over the past decade actually do so. We ...more »
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Fabian Wagner, Julian Metzler, “When the crowd speaks: AI-based retail investor sentiment indicator with Reddit data”
European Central Bank, Working paper n° 3276
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Abstract: Retail investors increasingly discuss markets in real time on social media, yet these discussions remain difficult to measure systematically. This paper introduces the Reddit Retail Investor Sentiment Indicator (R-RISI), a high-frequency measure of retail investor sentiment based on Reddit posts from major investing and ...more »
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Luca Nocciola and Samuele Scaglioni, “Learning probability of default and stress testing”
European Central Bank, Working paper n° 3277
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Abstract: We analyze the Probability of Default (PD) of non-financial corporations in Europe using Random Forests (RF) and assess implications for stress testing the banking sector. To this end, we exploit data on firms’ financial statements (Orbis) and banks’ credit registry (Anacredit). We show that ...more »
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Pau Belda, “Capital gains taxation and asset price volatility”
Bank of England, Working paper n° 1,200
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Abstract: Do capital gains tax cuts destabilize or stabilize asset prices? In an asset pricing model with heterogeneous agents and realization-based taxation, a tax cut has two opposing effects. It dampens volatility by reducing realization-based trading frictions, but also amplifies it by strengthening the pass ...more »
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Ayelen Banegas, Lucas Devigne, Mulalo Mamburu, Kleopatra Nikolaou, Anna Samarina and Fabio Tamburrini, “Government bond-backed repo markets: between resilience and vulnerability”
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., Working paper n° 2026-057
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Abstract: This paper synthesizes the literature on vulnerabilities in government bond-backed repo markets, focusing on the features that contribute to both the fragility and stability of these markets. The literature shows that the same features that enable efficient liquidity provision, including short-term funding, dealer intermediation, ...more »
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Hyung Joo Kim, “Characterizing the Conditional Pricing Kernel: A New Approach”
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., Working paper n° 2026-059
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Abstract: I propose a novel method to reliably estimate the conditional pricing kernel by incorporating conditioning variables. The VIX and the term spread are most informative variables for identifying state prices. The conditional kernel estimate exhibits significant time variation: the more favorable market expectations, the ...more »
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David Borner and Heiko Sorg, “CIP violations as functional components of the dynamic cross-currency basis curve”
Swiss National Bank, Working paper n° 9/2026
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Abstract: The general search for U.S. dollars in forward currency markets, combined with the balance-sheet constraints of intermediary dealers, induces persistent failure of covered interest parity (CIP). We investigate these CIP deviations across the entire maturity spectrum by analyzing the daily dynamics of the USD/CHF ...more »
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Boris Hofmann, Aaron Mehrotra and Jan Paulick, “Dollarisation and monetary control: what lessons for the rise of stablecoins?”
Bank for International Settlements, Working paper n° 1370
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Abstract: The emergence of stablecoins has created a new channel to access US dollar liquidity in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), similar to the historical role of foreign currency deposits, or “deposit dollarisation”. This has raised concerns about the possible implications for monetary control ...more »
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Michael McMahon, Matthew Naylor, Ryan Rholes and Peter Rickards, “Anchors aweigh? The effect of communicating forecast uncertainty”
Bank of England, Working Paper n° 1,196
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Abstract: We examine how central banks can effectively communicate forecast uncertainty in a two-part experimental study. Part I tests how different visual media – fan charts, dot plots, box-and-whisker plots, speedometers, and ranges – communicate uncertainty to both the general public and expert audiences. We ...more »
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