Job Ads as Signals: Evidence from a Priced Amenity and Worker Beliefs

We harmonize survey data on interest rates paid by approximately 15,000 small and medium enterprises across 125 firm surveys and 285,000 households across 83 household surveys spanning developing and rich countries to study the relationship between monetary policy rates and borrowing costs faced by SMEs and households. Using within-country variation in policy rates over time,…

News release The Bank of England has today published its policy statement and draft Code of Practice (rules) for systemic stablecoin issuers, marking a key milestone in establishing the UK’s stablecoin regime. The framework supports safe innovation, enabling UK issued stablecoins to develop as trusted forms of digital money. Alongside other innovations in money and…

We thank Brian Copeland, Lucas Davis, Tatyana Deryugina, Jenya Kahn-Lang, Matthew Kotchen, Severin Borenstein, Stephanie Weber, Catherine Wolfram, and participants at the UC Berkeley Energy Camp for helpful discussions, Andrew Tang and Benji Reade Malagueno for excellent research assistance, and the Sloan Foundation through the Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy series, the Cowles…

Innovation Jul 13, 2026 Ana Palacio AI governance must account for everything from the technology’s material requirements to its effects on communities, businesses, labor markets, the environment, and strategic competition. To this end, a framework of verification-based trust—broader than national regulation and…

The tax justice movement awaits the publication of the first full draft of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC). It is expected within the coming days. For those not intimately following the UN intergovernmental negotiations over the last two years, the Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from…

Time: 4pm to 5pm | Location: Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH and MS teams Minutes Item 1 – Welcome The Chair opened the meeting by reminding members of the guidelines provided to members of the Banknote Imagery Expert Panel which informed their nominations that the animals on the shortlist should be wild,…