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In the canonical view of over-the-counter markets, dealers intermediate single-asset trades one at a time. We study a complementary role: when investors trade several assets at once, dealers absorb the joint position into inventory, insuring against execution risk. Using data on the near-universe of Canadian fixed-income trades, we find that bundled transactions account for 20…

A recent Wall Street Journal article on the EU’s new country-by-country taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. reporting requirements warns of confusion in the near future. The disclosures, the authors write, could…

Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. July 01, 2026 Federal Reserve issues initial findings from its 2025 triennial payments study For release at 2:30 p.m. EDT The Federal Reserve on Wednesday issued initial findings…

We are grateful for comments to Larry Ball, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Ina Hajdini, Lubos Pastor, seminar participants at the University of Chicago, Harvard, University of Iowa, and participants at the NBER Inflation: Frontiers or Research and Policy conference. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the…

We uncover a new mechanism that links growth and a decline in the energy intensity of production, observed globally since 1990. Using microdata from India and a causal research design, we demonstrate that the expenditure share of energy declines steeply with firm scale, due both to physical scaling laws and technology investment. Given that average…