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Jumpstarting an International Currency

16 January 2026

Saleem Bahaj and Ricardo Reis

While the USD dominates cross-border transactions today, a few other currencies are also used internationally. This paper shows that central bank policies that reduce the volatility of borrowing costs for foreign firms in domestic currency can trigger a jumpstart of the currency’s international status, because firms’ choices of the currency of their working capital complement their sales invoicing.

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Destabilizing Capital Flows Amid Global Inflation

16 January 2026

Julien Bengui and Louphou Coulibaly

Over the latest monetary policy tightening cycle, capital has been flowing from low-inflation countries to high-inflation countries. This pattern of capital flows is consistent with the predictions of an open-economy model with nominal rigidities where cost-push shocks generate an inflationary episode and capital flows freely across countries.

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The Illiquidity of Water Markets

11 January 2026

Javier D. Donna and José A. Espín-Sánchez

We investigate the efficiency of a market relative to a non-market institution—an auction relative to a quota—as allocation mechanisms in the presence of frictions. We use data from water markets in southeastern Spain and explore a specific change in the institutions to allocate water. On the one hand, frictions arose because poor farmers were liquidity constrained. On the other hand, farmers who were part of the wealthy elite were not liquidity constrained.

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Patent Term, Innovation, and the Role of Technology Disclosure Externalities

11 January 2026

Fabio Bertolotti

I examine the impact of patent term on R&D and innovation in the presence of policy anticipation, common in real-world settings. Using a difference-in-difference design, I exploit quasi-experimental variation in U.S. patent term across technological fields due to the ratification of TRIPs agreements in 1995. Despite a general increase in average patent term, in most fields innovators faced a considerable probability of patent term reduction for future innovations.

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Selection in Surveys: Using Randomized Incentives to Detect and Account for Nonresponse Bias

6 January 2026

Deniz Dutz, Ingrid Huitfeldt, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Winnie van Dijk

We show how to use randomized participation incentives to test and account for nonresponse bias in surveys. We first use data from a survey about labor market conditions, linked to full-population administrative data, to provide evidence of large differences in labor market outcomes between survey participants and nonparticipants, differences which would not be observable to an analyst who only has access to the survey data.

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Education and the Margins of Cyclical Adjustment in the Labor Market

5 January 2026

Cynthia L. Doniger

Allocative wages—the labor costs considered when deciding to form or dissolve a long-term employment relationship—are more sensitive to cyclical conditions for more educated workers. Specifically, college-educated workers’ allocative wages are highly pro-cyclical, while high school dropouts’ wages exhibit only moderate cyclicality.

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The Macroeconomics of Irreversibility

5 January 2026

Isaac Baley and Julio Andrés Blanco

We study aggregate capital dynamics in an investment model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks, fixed capital adjustment costs, and irreversibility driven by a wedge between capital purchase and resale prices. We derive sufficient statistics that capture the role of investment frictions in aggregate capital fluctuations, measure these statistics using investment microdata, and exploit them to discipline the capital price wedge.

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Bank Information Production Over the Business Cycle

18 December 2025

Cooper Howes and Gregory Weitzner

The information banks produce drives their lending decisions and macroeconomic outcomes, but this information is inherently difficult to analyze because it is private. We construct a novel measure of bank information quality from confidential regulatory data that include banks’ private risk assessments for US corporate loans.

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How should regulators target their limit enforcement budgets? We quantify the benefits of linked regulation, where regulators dynamically target plants co-owned with other plants with poor compliance records.

New paper by @leistenecon & Vreugdenhil

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How do currencies become international?

Bahaj & Reis(@R2Rsquared) show that PBoC swap lines boosted RMB use abroad, revealing a policy lever to jumpstart a currency’s international status.

https://www.restud.com/jumpstarting-an-international-currency/

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