Fintech and the future of payments. Very interesting contributions:
https://fipe.berkeley.edu/program-agenda-conference
The Future of Jobs Report 2020 of the World Economic Forum:
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2020?
Is inflation dead or hibernating?
https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp201020.htm
“This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession”:
“Short-Time Compensation: An Alternative to Layoffs during COVID-19?”:
787’000 new claims for unemployment benefits in the United States (somewhat lower than in previous weeks, but still a very high number):
BIS international banking statistics at end-June 2020:
https://www.bis.org/statistics/rppb2010.htm?
The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust case against Google:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328941/download
“U.S. Economic Outlook, Monetary Policy, and Initiatives to Sustain the Flow of Credit to Households and Firms”, speech by Vice Chair Richard H. Clarida:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/clarida20201019a.htm
“Human Capital Depreciation”:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27925?
“Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?”:
(by Joao Granja, Christos Makridis, Constantine Yannelis, Eric Zwick)
“Federal debt policy in an era of low interest rates: A guide to the issues” (by Louise Sheiner and Kadija Yilla):
New WTO report looks at the global intellectual property system and COVID-19:
https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/trip_15oct20_e.htm
Will Tech Improvements for Trading Services Switch the U.S. into a Net Exporter?
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/fourth-quarter-2020/tech
Bridging measurement challenges and analytical needs of external statistics: evolution or revolution?
https://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb52.htm?
The Per Jacobsson Lecture and 19th BIS Annual Conference:
https://www.bis.org/events/conf201030/overview.htm?
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