Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

Using proprietary data from the predominant cryptocurrency exchange in India together with the country’s Household Inflation Expectations Survey, we document a significantly positive association between inflation expectations and individual cryptocurrency purchases. Higher inflation expectations a...
Keywords: Bitcoin, Crytocurrency, Household Finance, Inflation, Stablecoin
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

How do banks respond to geopolitical risk, and is this response distinct from other macroeconomic risks? Using U.S. supervisory data and new geopolitical risk indices, we show that banks reduce cross-border lending to countries with elevated geopolitical risk but continue lending to those markets th...
Keywords: geopolitical risk, bank lending, credit risk, international spillovers
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

How does monetary policy affect mortgage allocation across income groups? Using comprehensive credit registry data from Malaysia (2017-2023), we examine the distributional effects of monetary policy shocks on new mortgage demand, probability of approvals, value of new mortgage originations, maturity...
Keywords: Monetary policy, credit allocation, household finance, mortgage market, Malaysia
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

We build a macro-finance model with an occasionally binding financing constraint where real interest rates have opposite effects on current and future financial stability, with the contemporaneous impact driven by valuation effects and the future impact driven by reach-for-yield by intermediaries. W...
Keywords: Occasionally Binding Financing Constraint, financial crises, monetary policy, Financial Stability Policy, Macroeconomic Model with Banks
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Jun 2025

A war-related factor model derived from textual analysis of media news reports explains the cross section of expected stock returns. Using a semi-supervised topic model to extract discourse topics from 7,000,000 New York Times stories spanning 160 years, the war factor predicts the cross section of ...
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