Banking
Federico D’Amario, Sebastian De-Ramon and William B. Francis “The economic effects of changes to bank capital regulation: evidence from the United Kingdom”
Bank of England, Working Paper n°1,172
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: Strong bank capitalisation provides long‑run financial‑stability benefits. However, transitioning to higher capital levels may involve short‑run costs. We analyse the effects of prudential capital changes on lending behaviour, macroeconomic outcomes, and banking competition using UK data within a structural VAR framework with sign and ...more »
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Romain Baeriswyl, Kene Boun My and Camille Cornand “Central Bank Digital Currency and Gresham’s law: An experimental analysis”
Swiss National Bank, Working Paper n° 3/2026
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: In a monetary system in which risk-free and risky money coexist, Gresham’s law predicts that people will hoard risk-free money as a store of value and spend risky money as a medium of exchange. Establishing a payment system on the basis of risk-free money, ...more »
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Giovanni Covi, Maren Froemel, Dennis Reinhardt and Nora Wegner “Climate policy and banks’ portfolio allocation”
Bank of England, Working Paper n° 1,149
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: How do banks respond to transition risk and which mechanisms drive this response? We shed new light on this question using data on granular international large exposures of UK banks. Climate policy is the main source of transition risk we use. We find that ...more »
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Bo Li, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Marcello Miccoli, Brandon Joel Tan and Longmei Zhang “Making Stablecoins Stable”
International Monetary Fund, Working paper n° 26/74
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: Payment stablecoins are privately issued digital money with the potential to enhance payment efficiency, foster innovation, and improve financial inclusion. At the same time, they are vulnerable to runs and associated welfare losses. One way to lower run risk is to require stablecoin issuers ...more »
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Andrés Azqueta-Gavaldón, Marina Diakonova, Corinna Ghirelli and Javier J. Pérez “Diverging signals from economic uncertainty measures: Uncovering coherence through news narratives”
BANCO DE ESPAÑA, Working paper n° 2641
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: The proliferation of economic uncertainty indicators —ranging from text-based indices like the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index to market-based measures such as the VIX and the ECB’s Country-Level Index of Financial Stress (CLIFS)— has enriched the analytical toolkit of economists and policymakers. Yet these ...more »
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Fabien Gonguet, Xuehui Han, Choonsung Lim, To-Nhu Dao and Saraf Nawar “Climate Finance and Adaptation Needs In Pacific Island Countries”
International Monetary Fund, Working paper n° 26/83
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Apr
29
2026
Abstract: Pacific Island Countries (PICs) face acute and rising climate adaptation needs due to high exposure to sea‑level rise, natural disasters, and structural vulnerabilities associated with small size and geographic remoteness. This paper develops a unified framework to produce the first region‑wide, internally consistent estimates ...more »
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Marco Gross and Richard Senner “From Par to Pressure: Liquidity, Redemptions, and Fire Sales with a Systemic Stablecoin”
International Monetary Fund, Working paper n° 26/5
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Mar
26
2026
Abstract: Fiat-backed stablecoins are expanding, and their issuers may attain systemic relevance as reserve portfolios grow and as they may become increasingly intertwined with financial markets. This paper analyzes the resulting risks and the design choices that can mitigate them. A detailed financial-economics discussion forms ...more »
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Eugenio M. Cerutti, Martina Hengge and Takaaki Sagawa, “Stablecoin Shocks”
International Monetary Fund, Working paper n° 26/44
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Mar
26
2026
Abstract: We develop novel measures of stablecoin shocks and use them to identify the causal effects of stablecoin adoption on U.S. financial markets. Combining a daily narrative dataset of stablecoin-specific news with changes in the combined market capitalization of USDC and USDT, we measure high-frequency ...more »
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Youming Liu, Francisco Rivadeneyra and Edona Reshidi, “Public vs. Private Payment Platforms: Market Impacts and Optimal Policy”
Bank of Canada, Working paper n° 2026-10
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Mar
26
2026
Abstract: We study competition between a welfare-maximizing public platform and a profit-maximizing private platform in a two-sided payment market. We characterize the public platform’s optimal pricing and show that it balances the benefits of increased competition against the welfare costs of network fragmentation. While introducing ...more »
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Martin Summer, “Privacy by design for public digital money”
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian National Bank), Working paper n° 278
Posted in: Articolo
Mar
26
2026
Abstract: As central banks explore issuing digital currencies for public use, a critical design challenge is how to protect the privacy of the granular data trails digital payments leave behind. While privacy is widely recognised as a goal, policy debates often frame it as a ...more »
